drygulchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• dry gulch
• dry-gulch

語源

Because in the American West, outlaws often killed people as they passed through a dry gulch; or because cattle rustlers drove stolen animals off the edge of such a gulch. (ref. John Ayto 1998)

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹʌɪɡʌltʃ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪ.ɡʌlt͡ʃ/

動詞

drygulch (三人称単数 現在形 drygulches, 現在分詞 drygulching, 過去形および過去分詞形 drygulched)

1. (US, slang) To murder; to attack, assault, especially in an ambush.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, page 77:

     ‘Then one of them got into the car and dry-gulched me.’

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, page 722–3:

     You've delivered yourselves into the hands of capitalists and Christers, and anybody wants to change any of that steps across ’at frontera, they're drygulched on the spot—though I'm sure you'd know how to avoid that, Dwayne.