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  • noun Plural form of buffalo.

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Examples

  • Its a miracle to even bump into a few lions lying around on a safari, so a stand-off between crocodile, lions and buffalos is just plain amazing. ranro

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The most amazing video of the week 2007

  • She recapitulates the injuries she has received from her father, the most atrocious of which appear to be, that he has given them all "ditch water" to drink, and "buffalos" to eat.

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • The tables in the great banqueting room groaned under the weight of game of all kinds; of venison from the woods, and fish from the lakes, with hunters 'delicacies, such as buffalos' tongues, and beavers 'tails, and various luxuries from Montreal, all served up by experienced cooks brought for the purpose.

    Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains 1836

  • The tables in the great banqueting room groaned under the weight of game of all kinds; of venison from the woods, and fish from the lakes, with hunters 'delicacies, such as buffalos' tongues, and beavers 'tails, and various luxuries from Montreal, all served up by experienced cooks brought for the purpose.

    Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Washington Irving 1821

  • Today, the targets of the violence are mostly "buffalos," as some of my more bigoted friends insist on calling them.

    Asian Correspondent: Bangkok Pundit 128 2010

  • Today, the targets of the violence are mostly "buffalos," as some of my more bigoted friends insist on calling them.

    Asian Correspondent: Bangkok Pundit 128 2010

  • Associated Press A Cambodian boy herded buffalos on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov. 15.

    Southeast Asia in Pictures 2011

  • Here, the lone adult lion, she has to contend with the threat of a large herd of aggressive wild buffalos equipped with killer horns, their devastating weapons.

    To Serve a Serial Killer Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

  • Behind their fennel camouflage, the mallow tasted weedy, treelike—a leaf you could imagine giraffes or buffalos gnashing on.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Instead, buffalos and a feed shed are in the space.

    Quack Doctors Pick Up India's Slack 2011

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