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- verb US, slang To
murder ; toattack ,assault , especially in anambush .
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Because in the American West, outlaws often killed people as they passed through a dry gulch; or because cattle rustlers drove stolen animals off the edge of such a gulch. (ref. John Ayto 1998)
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sionnach commented on the word drygulch
to ambush with the intent of killing or severely mauling
October 9, 2007