Animals, Insects, & Birds Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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break stick n. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office was first tipped off to hog-dogging events at someplace called the “EZ Ranch” in Cordes Lakes in October.…Fights are held in an arena area, where wild boars are released one at a time. Dogs are then released to “catch” them by biting and latching on to the animal’s throat or body until their jaws are forcibly pried open by a “break stick.” [English Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Dec. 22, 2004)

breeding pad n. As beef cattle grow and mature, rump fat is an early developing fat tissue. Textbooks of beef cattle anatomy often refer to it as the “breeding pad,” a protective fat Mother Nature put in place for mating, making the process more comfortable for both bull and cow alike. [English Agriculture Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Jan. 16, 2008)

bubble-net n. A light wind blew in from the ocean, and the skipper had stopped his boat to watch three 30-ton humpback whales lunging from the waves or circling to make so-called bubble-nets in which they like to catch clouds of small fish. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Oct. 22, 2007)

bucket baby n. After about 10 days of 24/7 supervised nursing, physical restraints, and good drugs she finally took him…though we sure doubted often if she was going to work out. Would have been much easier for all to have put him on a bucket, but the TB racing industry frowns on “bucket babies” due to the non-performing reputation. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 26, 2007)

bucket baby n. A couple of breeders I know have successfully used this drug this year on mares that were pastured on infected fescue fields, and all produced milk within 72 hours of initial dosage. They had no bucket babies at all, for the first time in several years! [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 26, 2007)

bucket baby n. “What is a Bucket Baby?” “A foal or calf or whatever that has not got a mother to nurse for whatever reason and it fed milk or milk replacer with a bucket instead of a bottle.” [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 26, 2007)

bucket baby n. She will be going to her first ever halter show on April 1st.…We were worried that she would be stunted due to being a bucket baby, but that was not the case with her. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 26, 2007)

bucket baby n. Since then, Walker has been negotiating with the USDA but secured clemency for only his four “bucket babies,” pet elk he’d bottle-fed as calves. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 26, 2007)

bucket biologist n. There’s a term for people who transplant fish into a body of water where they don’t belong: They’re called “bucket biologists.” [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Biology Science Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 31, 2006)

bucket biologist n. The balance of nature in every lake is so fine that an ignorant bucket biologist has the potential to plunder and vandalize a fishery.…Bucket biologists are hard at work all over the country. Walleyes are being dumped into Montana lakes. Rainbow trout are destroying native brook trout fisheries in the East.…Bucket biologists are ignorant, selfish people. If professional biologists make mistakes—a case in point is the introduction of stripers at Lake McConaughy—how can the bomb-like buckets of amateurs not explode? [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Biology Environment] [full cite] (Sep. 1, 2006)

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