subs. (American).—1.  The future state; GLORY (q.v.). [From the North-American Indian’s conception of heaven.]

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  1848.  RUXTON, Life in the Far West, p. 98. After a long journey, they will reach the HAPPY HUNTING-GROUNDS.

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  1890.  A. C. GUNTER, Miss Nobody of Nowhere, p. 57. Old Mescal is now keeping a sharp eye out for the child and the cowboy, that he may send them to the HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS also.

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  2.  (colloquial).—A favourable place for work or play.

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  1892.  Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 26 Oct., p. 119. The HAPPY HUNTING-GROUND of the swell mobsman is the opening of some Exhibition.

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  3.  (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see MONOSYLLABLE.

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