Definitions for bobtails

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bobtails bob·tail

Spelling: [bob-teyl]

IPA: /ˈbɒbˌteɪl/

Bobtails is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 308 anagrams from letters in bobtails (abbilost).

Definitions for bobtails

noun

1. a short or docked tail.
2. an animal with such a tail.

adjective

1. Also, bobtailed. having a bobtail.
2. cut short; docked; cropped.
3. shorter or briefer than usual; abbreviated:

verb (used with object)

1. to cut short the tail of; dock, often by cutting a muscle in a horse's tail to make it stand erect.

Origin of bobtails

First recorded in 1535-45; bob² + tail¹

Examples for bobtails

But, those hopes were to be dashed about five weeks into my college career.

I think with that generation, so many of their hopes have been so dashed that nihilism is really a natural response.

Johnson dashed into the base and called to his partner, 23-year-old Tantania Alexander.

In Louisville and Baltimore, the horse had dashed to the front of the field, setting the pace.

Then a string of missteps, some self-inflicted by the White House, dashed any hope the House might act.