bobtail mare.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : Several legislative items must be dropped from the current bobtail session of Congress.    From Dictionary.com. 

And the word "bobtail" has caused much confusion - in that I had absolutely no idea what a bobtail was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

Since he hasn't been home in Texas since January 1, this -- the "bobtail" of a truck based in New Jersey -- is JB's world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Ehrenreich: With the Truckers in DC] Reference

Reply sheliajapanese bobtail kittypet kitten says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Staring contest rules - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Hawaiian bobtail squid mimic the moon with flourescent bacteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neat squid fact] Reference

The bobtail squid, found in the Pacific Ocean, glows in the dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - Quorum sensing and V. harveyi.] Reference

"It may please the ragtag and bobtail crowd from the ground up," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference

Why did it take coming to Bulgaria to finally learn what a bobtail is?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

I still miss my bobtail cat Nuffink who died two years ago from cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

We both have Japanese bobtail cats and I recognized her icon as being one.    From Wordnik.com.  [May 25th, 2005] Reference

Lincoln was finishing up a bobtail refit in San Diego and about to go back to sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear and the Dragon]

Here all the riff-raff and bobtail of London repair in their finery, and have a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

It was the funniest, roundest, dearest little thing, with a tiny bobtail and big ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Have A Mystery To Solve]

Every rag-tag and bobtail group gets recognition, she says--but not Canadian soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

I want you to come down here by and by and work privately among the rag-tag and bobtail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pudd'nhead Wilson] Reference

The convents and the monasteries are most of them barracks for the rag-tag-and-bobtail soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

It's almost like, Larry, our bobcat, if you look at the bobtail, and its ears, but much, much bigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2005] Reference

That would appear to be the end of the Japanese bobtail coffee cup genitiggie gave me some years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damn.] Reference

To the exact rhythm of our horses 'hoofs and the jounce of our bells, we lined it out: Bells on bobtail ring!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

Then it turned itself about and tore off at top speed, its white bobtail going up and down as it bounded away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five On A Treasure Island]

But nor is there a hunger for the shabby rag-tag and bobtail "Conservatives", with their party logo-of-the-month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

ANYHOO, I also have a cat named Noodle (a tabby with a bobtail, thus his nickname of "Nub") who's about 14 yrs old.    From Wordnik.com.  [haloaskew Diary Entry] Reference

MIKE: My name is Mike, I used to drive a bobtail truck in southern California and when work got slow they let me go.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2009] Reference

The bobtail squid has a light-emitting organ that relies on colonization by a luminescent bacterium, Vibrio fischeri.    From Wordnik.com.  [No metazoan is an island - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The Hawaiian bobtail squid beams light from its belly to camouflage its dark shadow from predatory fish on the sea floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [| Letter Never Sent] Reference

Those rag-tag and bobtail vermin are calling us names!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Souls of Men are Calling] Reference

By the rag, tag, and bobtail, of those they call "Blues;".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference

Think of the rag-tag-and-bobtail they will bring with them! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demos] Reference

Putting on his bobtail coat, he went ashore, to call upon Colonel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot.] Reference

Swagger has a bobtail and is good with other cats and with children.    From Wordnik.com.  [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference

Indeed, among his cohorts there were a good many of the pronounced rag-tag and bobtail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories] Reference

Providence, and he read it and felt like a gambler who has drawn a card to fill his bobtail hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference

'She comes with that rascally doctor and a bobtail of tea-drinking men and women and their brats to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

"I think you have worn that bobtail coat about long enough," said the gentleman, when they came to Main Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot.] Reference

His bobtail coat and shoes, which had been brought from the island, were dry, and he was in presentable condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot.] Reference

He set his invitations to dinner in a separate category from those of the rag-tag and bobtail of Wellingsford society.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Planet] Reference