"slap leather" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-slap leather.ogg Forms: slaps leather [present, singular, third-person], slapping leather [participle, present], slapped leather [participle, past], slapped leather [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} slap leather (third-person singular simple present slaps leather, present participle slapping leather, simple past and past participle slapped leather)
  1. (US, idiomatic) To make a quick motion to draw one's handgun from its holster, especially in a duel in the Old West. Tags: US, idiomatic Synonyms: fill one's hand
    Sense id: en-slap_leather-en-verb-d-RpjBKy Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "2001 August 17, Stephen Hunter, “'American Outlaws': The Young And the West-less”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-07-07:",
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          "ref": "2010, “Movies: Destry (1954)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-07:",
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          "ref": "2015 April 20, Kelly Bostian, “Quick-draw cowboys face off to find Oklahoma's fastest guns”, in Tulsa World, retrieved 2015-07-07:",
          "text": "With .45s strapped to their sides, gunslingers—30 men, six women, even an 11-year-old kid—slogged through the mud in their cowboy boots to reach a dirt-caked boardwalk where, one after another, they slapped leather to see who would reign as Oklahoma’s fastest gun.",
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