Boot Hill

English

Proper noun

Boot Hill

1. (chiefly US) Name used for many cemeteries in the American Old West; nickname for any cemetery.
   • 1919, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 13, in A Man Four-Square:

     Every few days some unfortunate was buried on Boot Hill, a victim of his own inexpertness with the six-shooter.

   • 2008 May 23, Gail Pennington, “'60s upheaval shot down Westerns”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, retrieved 8 June 2008:

     Where have all the TV Westerns gone? A genre once adored by viewers lies dead, but not forgotten, in television's Boot Hill.

2. (cricket, slang) The position of short leg.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:cemetery