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Lickspittle - A mean parasite, one who will
stoop to any dirty work
Lief or Lieve - Willingly, gladly.
Like Bricks - Quickly, with energy.
Life Preserver - A gun.
Light (or lighting) a shuck - To get the hell out of here in a hurry. "I'm lightin' a shuck for California."
Light On - To fall on, to come to by chance,
to happen to find.
Lights or Top Lights - Eyes.
Like a Thoroughbred - Like a gentleman.
Like lickin' butter off a knife - Something that is easy; not hard.
Lincoln Skins - Greenbacks.
Line Camp - Crude shacks or camps on the outermost boundaries of a ranch.
Line Rider - Cowboys the guarded the ranch boundaries. Also called outriders.
Lining the Flue - Eating.
Lily Liver - Someone who is a coward.
Limsy - Weak, flexible.
Lincoln Skins - Greenbacks.
Linsey Woolsey - A corruption of linen and
wool. Material made of linen and wool mixed, light or coarse stuff. “He gave
them coats of linsey woolsey, which were good and warm for winter, and good and
light for summer.
Little End of the Horn - To come away from a situation at a disadvantage. The same as “short end of the stick.
Lizzy - Saddle horn.
Llano Estacado - The dry, treeless plains of Texas and New Mexico, also called the "Staked Plains."
Loaded for Bears - Lightly intoxicated.
Loaded to the Gunwhales - Full out drunk.
Loblolly - Mud hole.
Lock, Stock, And Barrel - The whole thing,
the whole “kit and caboodle.”
Loco - Crazy.
Logy - Slow-moving, dull, awkward.
Loller - Live, sportive damsel.
Lone Star - An independent cowboy.
Long And Short - The end, the result, the
upshot. “That's the long and short of the subject.”
Longrider - An outlaw, someone who usually had to stay in the saddle for an extended period of time while on the run from a crime.
Loo'd, looed - Beaten or defeated.
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