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/kaɪˈoʊti/ /kˈaɪoʊt/ Listen

Coyote

noun

Small wolf native to western North America. Synonyms: brush wolf, Canis latrans, prairie wolf.

Someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border).

A forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time).

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"Coyote" Quotes from Famous Books

... look bigger, and kind of chilly and blue in the deep places. The Kid wished that he could find some of the boys. He was beginning to get hungry, and he had long ago begun to get tired. But he was undismayed, even when he heard a coyote yap-yap-yapping up a brushy canyon. It might be that he would have to camp out all night. The Kid had loved those cowboy yarns where the teller—who was always the hero—had been caught out somewhere and had been compelled to ...

— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower

... make an enemy of Black Ramon De Barios—that is the problem that Jack Merrill and his friends, including Coyote Pete, ...

— A Sunny Little Lass • Evelyn Raymond

... premises. He was quick and accurate, finally scorning to shoot at a stationary mark and often riding miles to get to the valley level where there were rabbits and "Jacks," that he occasionally bowled over on the run. Once he shot a coyote, and his cup of happiness brimmed—for ...

— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... bed, Peter Brent presented a pitiable sight. His glassy stare and shrill laugh like a coyote baying at the moon sent cold chills down Eva's back as she entered the room. This man, at one time a power in the business world, was only a shell of his former self, and his inhuman laughter caused even Locke to shudder a little as he ...

— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey

... past-and-gone smiles. His ranch was a little two-room box house in a grove of hackberry trees in the lonesomest part of the sheep country. His household consisted of a Kiowa Indian man cook, four hounds, a pet sheep, and a half-tamed coyote chained to a fence-post. He owned 3,000 sheep, which he ran on two sections of leased land and many thousands of acres neither leased nor owned. Three or four times a year some one who spoke his language would ride up to his gate and exchange a few bald ideas with him. Those ...

— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry

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