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US
/ˈɫɛɹiət/
]
[ UK /lˈeəɹɪˌæt/ ]
[ UK /lˈeəɹɪˌæt/ ]
NOUN
- a long noosed rope used to catch animals
How To Use lariat In A Sentence
- I just know that its supposed to be called a lariat, not lasso. WB (STILL) HATES CHICKS, WONDER WOMAN
- It was situated towards the northern end of the forest, a mile or so from the outskirts of the town of Lariat.
- A gaggle of cowboys walk by en route to the rodeo tent, lariats swinging.
- Looking at them, you really do think of twirling lariats, and here the vaguely bordello colors, along with a kind of supercharged motion, suggest a semi-frantic, but also humorous, licentiousness.
- He had seen the end of gold and the end of the buffalo, the beginning of cattle, the beginning of wheat, and the spreading of the barbed-wire fence, that, in the end, will take from him his occupation and his revolver, his chaparejos and his usefulness, his lariat and his reason for being. The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock
- Into their midst he went and a good horse was picked out and lariated in the twinkling of an eye and quickly hoppled and turned loose. Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
- The look became dottier and dottier, until it morphed into a kind of homeless masquerade, one that was accented by subtle luxuries like a cashmere muffler, a Balenciaga lariat bag and of course her signature carryout latte from Starbucks. "Ashcan chic ... a kind of homeless masquerade."
- Down-sizing, delayering, outsourcing and reengineering haunt the suburbs as well as the inner cities, mocking the commitments and hollowing out the institutions which were once the lodestars of the salariat. Archive 2009-08-01
- Their stocky Indian driver, pigtailed and black-hatted, followed them astride a mule and quirted their hindquarters with a length of rope which he swung like a lariat.
- For those who like a more sedate evening minus the cowboy whoops and lariats, Jockey Club may be the best place to be in.