colt

IPA: kˈoʊɫt

noun

  • A young male horse.
  • A young crane (bird).
  • (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
  • (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
  • (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
  • (biblical) A young camel or donkey.
  • A surname originating as an occupation.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West.

verb

  • (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
  • (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
  • (intransitive) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
  • (obsolete, slang, transitive) To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.
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