Meaning of leppy | Babel Free

Definitions

A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.

US, slang

Examples

“When those big bands take off, the mares never come back for those leppies. We were branding one time and saw a little bunch move out and a mom left a leppy behind.”

“Out on the range, he would have been a stunted leppy.”

“I have heard a famous rodeo announcer crack the same old joke every year, "A leppy is a little calf whose ma has died, and whose pa has run away with another cow."”

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