Quick links
caribou
[< Cdn F < Algonk.; cf. Micmac halibū pawer, scratcher]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.
1n.
any of several species of North American reindeer, genus Rangifer, native to Canada, Alaska, and formerly to Maine and Mass.
Quotations
1665
We killed severall . . . Carriboucks. . . .
1744
They . . . live by Fishing, and a kind of Deer they call Cariboux. . . .
1888
In Quebec two moose, two cariboo, three deer was the largest bag allowed per man per annum. . . .
1964
Some fear the herds will disappear from the province [New Brunswick] entirely, as the caribou did early in this century.
2n.
the flesh of the caribou; caribou meat.
Quotations
1896
Caribou, I may say in passing, I consider of all wild meats the one that one tires of least.
1957
The last two places in N.W.T. where the PEOPLE should be denied their daily bread--caribou, should be the Hospitals for their sick and the schools for their children. It is forbidden by the Game Law to serve the patients caribou!
3n.
the skin or hide of the caribou.
Quotations
1808
. . . their clothing consisted of dressed leather . . . with robes of . . . Carribo. . . .
1898
Her parkee, made of Caribou, it is a lively fit. / And she's all right from muck-a-luck unto her dainty mit. / This lovely Klooch is fond of Hooch, and makes it very well.
1947
The trousers were of caribou. . .
4n. — Que., Slang
a potent mixture of whisky-blanc, and red wine.
Quotations
1952
Traditional drink of the season [in French Canada] is caribou. . . .
1960
. . . this is filled with that formidable Quebec concoction, Caribou. . . .
1965
In the old days, when . . . caribou overcame one reporter, Pop pieced together a . . . story . . . and wired it off to save the reporter's neck.