wild bill hickock

1. 1.

   frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876)

   SynonymsHickockJames Butler Hickock

   Broadermarshal

Questions about wild bill hickock

What does wild bill hickock mean?

wild bill hickock means "frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876)".

What is another word for wild bill hickock?

Close synonyms include Hickock, James Butler Hickock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wild bill hickock a common word?

wild bill hickock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.