buffalo boss

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the hump on the shoulders of a buffalo, much esteemed as a delicacy.

See: boss

Quotations

1834

I send you now . . . a Buffalo boss which may perhaps be something of a curiosity at York Factory.

1957

Pemmican needed plenty of marrow fat, buffalo tongues and bosses, moose noses and beaver tails. . . .