owl hoot trail

noun

A path taken by outlaws or fugitives.

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Meanings

nounowl hoot trail (plural owl hoot trails)

plural owl hoot trails · alternative hoot owl trail

  1. USslangA path taken by outlaws or fugitives.

    Tub Sampson had quit the owl-hoot trail at the urging of his Indian wife and had been trying to make an honest living for the last several years.

    2003, E. Roy Hector, Escape from Hell's Corner, page 80
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    “One thing after all my years ridin' the owl-hoot trail, podna, is that you can't think about what may be behind you. If you do, you soon go crazy in the head.”

    2000, William W. Johnstone, Justice of the Mountain Man
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