dry-gulch

We’ve been in a long, dry-gulch period of dully politicized sex, which is now sputtering out into round-the-clock crusades for transgender bathrooms—knuckle-rapping morality repackaged as hygiene.

In 1905 it was set up as a dry-gulch railroad town handling transshipments of fruits and vegetables from California to the Midwest.

But the threat to dry-gulch him was another matter.

If you ever come up here we'll dry-gulch you, sure.

"I wanted to have a look at the man who wrote the note to James Cunningham threatenin' to dry-gulch him if he ever came to Dry Valley again."