owl hoot trail
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[edit]owl hoot trail (plural owl hoot trails)
- (US, slang) A path taken by outlaws or fugitives.
- 2000, William W. Johnstone, Justice of the Mountain Man:
- “One thing after all my years ridin' the owl-hoot trail, podna, is that you can't think about what may be behind you. If you do, you soon go crazy in the head.”
- 2003, E. Roy Hector, Escape from Hell's Corner, page 80:
- Tub Sampson had quit the owl-hoot trail at the urging of his Indian wife and had been trying to make an honest living for the last several years.