Meanings
- UShistoricalslanguncountableBull Durham Smoking Tobacco.
- datedderogatoryfigurativelyslanguncountableNonsense; rubbish.
There is a dub on the span board that throws out a lot of heifer dust.
1912, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, Amalgamated Transit Union (contributor), “Congratulates 479”, in The Motorman And Conductor, volume 21, number 1, page 373 more examples
Even if they do get pinched, they always have some heifer dust ready about laying a trap for a ship, and trying to make the shore in an hour to get evidence against her to have her pulled in.
1927, Eric Sherbrooke Walker, The Confessions of a Rum-Runner, page 256The obligation is to provide the people with the truth; not with a lot of rhetoric and heifer dust, if I may use that phrase.
1972, United States Congress, Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates Volume 118, Part 11, page 14430"Nope." He held up the magazine. "I've been reading up on this philosopher fella you people set such store in. I've got to tell you, Maddie, I think what he's preachin' is just a bunch of heifer dust."
2018, Emily March, Capture The Night
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