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Drygulched vs Drygulcher - What's the difference?

drygulched | drygulcher |

As a verb drygulched

is (drygulch).

As a noun drygulcher is

(slang) in the wild west, a hired assassin who shoots his targets from a concealed location.

drygulched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (drygulch)

    • drygulch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dry gulch * dry-gulch

    Verb

    (es)
  • (US, slang) To murder; to attack, assault, especially in an ambush.
  • *1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 77:
  • *:‘Then one of them got into the car and dry-gulched me.’
  • * 2006 , , Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 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.

    Derived terms

    * drygulcher

    drygulcher

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) In the Wild West, a hired assassin who shoots his targets from a concealed location.