owl hoot trail

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owl hoot trail (plural owl hoot trails)

  1. (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.

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