Meaning of Texas toothpick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A knife with a long narrow blade, especially one that is a folding knife.
   informal
2. A raccoon baculum, carried as a lucky charm.
   informal

Examples

“This is gonna be like bleedin' a steer. Turn around, mister, or I'll stick this Texas toothpick in your eyes, one at a time.”

“I got a telegram from over in Ellsworth that he has a fondness for slicing men up with that Texas toothpick of his.”

“Bob was the only man the author ever knew to carry a mint-condition fishing knife—not unlike this Case Classic Texas toothpick—into the Wyoming high country and use it on brook trout.”

“I brought it home and sawed off enough pieces for a matching bowie and Texas toothpick set I was making.”

“New Orleans gamblers are said to use the bones (also called coon dogs and Texas toothpicks) for luck.”

“In the southern United States, the baculums of raccoons— nicknamed Texas toothpicks—are considered signs of luck and fertility.”

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