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bobtail
noun
A short, or deliberately shortened tail.
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The player has a four flush or a "bobtail" straight (open at both ends, as 8-7-6-5 8-7-6-5 8-7-6-5 8-7-6-5he can draw one card.
Others, like the adorably tiny bobtail squid, pictured here, use their light in even more sophisticated ways.
The other living orders in the superorder include the Anguilliformes (eels), Saccopharyngiformes (bobtail eels, swallowers, and gulpers), and Albuliformes (bonefish).
The bobtail squid possess small cavities on the underside of its body that are home to bioluminescent bacteria.
The dog is often called "bobtail" because its tail is usually removed soon after birth.
Paul Rudd, leaning down to speak, barked his nose on the microphone just as a road-crossing rabbit bumps its bobtail against the fender of an oncoming truck.
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During my childhood, our family took vacations in "the woods," the ragtag-bobtail remains of the great northeastern blanket of forest.
The pink-favoring Hello Kitty has no such image problem, at least not in Japan, where she was created 38 years ago as a girl in bobtail-cat form from the suburbs of London, by Yuko Shimizu, a designer at Sanrio.
Japanese Bobtails are like cats on the front end and rabbits on the back end.
Unlike most dogs with "docked" tails, Japanese Bobtails come by their stubby tails naturally.
Small, low cars without a rear platform were called bobtails.
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