Boot Hill

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proper noun Name used for many cemeteries in the American Old West; nickname for any cemetery.

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It's in the southeast portion of Missouri, above what's known as the Boot Hill (ph) area.

CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008 2008
It's not for nothing that cricketers refer to short leg as "Boot Hill".

BBC - Ouch 2010
Luzon; "you would have done it much better than I, but your long hospitalization and transfer to" Boot Hill "interfered.

Blood Brothers A Medic's Sketch Book Colonel Eugene C. Jacobs
Dodge City's Boot Hill attraction and western museum has grown much more impressive since my last visit in 1978.

Road Trip grrm 2010
But the Bush Gang and its posse of Beltway Bandits have been the ones to finally gun down our once-powerful ideal of the American Cowboy and send it to Boot Hill.

Mike Bonifer: Take Off That Hat, Dick Cheney 2008
I remember how D&D led to me to discover Champions, and Boot Hill, and Top Secret, and Traveller.

Gary Gygax (1938-2008) 2008
Its famed cemetery, Boot Hill, was founded in 1872 as a burial place for slow-triggered gentlemen and satin-slippered ladies.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
Tascosans had a big burying in Boot Hill next day.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
Dodge City - the home of Boot Hill and cowboys, gunfighters and Saloons.

Archive 2004-09-01 2004
Dodge City - the home of Boot Hill and cowboys, gunfighters and Saloons.

Day Five - Kansas - Colorado 2004