prairie-dog town

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of the large communities of the gregarious prairie dog (def. 2).

See: prairie dog(def. 2)

Quotations

1853

[The "dogs" live in large settlements, many hundreds of them in one place.]

1890

There was a prairie dog town close to the agency.

1957

He had ridden it hell for leather over badger holes and prairie dog villages. . . .