Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Lakota leader who militarily resisted the encroachment of whites in the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of Gen. George A. Custer at Little Bighorn (1876).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877)
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Crazy Horse.
Examples
-
As a result crew members gave Charles the same nickname as former Liverpool footballer Emlyn Hughes, who was called Crazy Horse after he rugby-tackled an opponent.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
-
And for years he collected beautiful and valuable Sioux artifacts ” beaded saddles, medicine bundles, hide paintings, bows, arrows, quivers, pipes, beadwork ” and tended them in a log cabin he called the Crazy Horse museum.
The Pine Ridge Murders Burrows, John 1983
-
Crazy Horse, war chief of the Sioux, was born in or slightly before 1844, the son of an Oglala medicine man (also called Crazy Horse) and Spotted Tail's sister.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
-
Crazy Horse, war chief of the Sioux, was born in or slightly before 1844, the son of an Oglala medicine man (also called Crazy Horse) and Spotted Tail's sister.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
-
Crazy Horse, war chief of the Sioux, was born in or slightly before 1844, the son of an Oglala medicine man (also called Crazy Horse) and Spotted Tail's sister.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
-
Shepard recalls Crazy Horse's murder and the Wounded Knee massacre, the Civil War's killing fields and the wars in the Middle East, "B-52 bombers big as small cities" and their "big long ropes of black fuel trailing out across the sky."
JSOnline.com 2010
-
Wikileaks: US 'Crazy Horse' helicopter troop involved in string of fatal attacks in
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
-
Wikileaks: US 'Crazy Horse' helicopter troop involved in string of fatal attacks in
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
-
And now, with True Grit – which opened in the US last month to rapturous acclaim – they have taken it, a genre oft-presumed deader than Custer and Crazy Horse, and given it back its heart, soul and teeth.
With True Grit, the Coen brothers have given the western back its teeth 2011
-
Anthony Quinn, as Sioux chief Crazy Horse, says his people will give up everything except the sacred Black Hills, where "the spirits of our fathers dwell," warning that if those hills are infiltrated, all the tribes will unite and fight back.
Hollywood Frontiers: Outer Space and the Wild West Don Steinberg 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.