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boot hill

noun

, Western U.S.
  1. a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of boot hill1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
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Example Sentences

However, researchers believe there are actually around 50 bodies buried in and around Boot Hill.

Last weekend, excavators from USF began scouring a section near Boot Hill, an area near where the “colored” inmates were housed.

They buried them on the little boot-hill overlooking the ranch buildings.

More than forty years have passed since they 297 buried him in the little boot-hill at Florence, Arizona.

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