"houlihan" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "houlihans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hooley-ann",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoolihan",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "houlihan (plural houlihans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A. O'Connor, As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart, page 214:",
          "text": "But if he could not throw the houlihan, he still might get down in the dirt of the corral to help with dehorning, castrating, and branding.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A kind of lasso throw."
      ],
      "id": "en-houlihan-en-noun-JJUR7-15",
      "links": [
        [
          "lasso",
          "lasso"
        ],
        [
          "throw",
          "throw"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "houlihan"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "houlihans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hooley-ann",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoolihan",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "houlihan (plural houlihans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A. O'Connor, As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart, page 214:",
          "text": "But if he could not throw the houlihan, he still might get down in the dirt of the corral to help with dehorning, castrating, and branding.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A kind of lasso throw."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lasso",
          "lasso"
        ],
        [
          "throw",
          "throw"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "houlihan"
}