Definition of Buffalo bill

1. Noun. United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Buffalo Bill

Buddyrolls
Bude burner
Bude burners
Bude light
Bude lights
Budge
Budge's centre
Budin's obstetrical joint
Budorcas
Budorcas taxicolor
Bueller
Buena Vista
Buenos Aires
Buerger's disease
Buffalo
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill Cody
Buffalo Indian
Buffalonian
Buffalonians
Bufferin
Buffy
Buffyverse
Bufo americanus
Bufo boreas
Bufo calamita
Bufo canorus
Bufo debilis
Bufo microscaphus

Literary usage of Buffalo bill

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1908)
"The Greatest Action Book of Actual Happenings Ever Written buffalo bill Writes a New Book ... OF THE PLAINS How buffalo bill killed his first Indian at 11, ..."

2. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... California Joe—Wild Bill — buffalo bill—Amos Chapman —His Wonderful Achievement—What Gen. Miles Said of Him — Heroic Conduct ot Chapman — Surrounded by ..."

3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"She's now the mistress of buffalo bill, And pure as the heart of a lily still ; And I'm just as lonely as I can be : While I've killed all who have cared ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Another class has quilled florets ¡6. fistulosa), ot which buffalo bill is an excellent sample—a large, pure yellow, with maroon disk. ..."

5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"I had heard that buffalo bill, in private, ... Suddenly, bang go rifles, the Cowboys, headed b buffalo bill, appear ; more wild banging ; the Indians ride ..."

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