Billy the Kid

noun

1. William H. Bonney, 1859–81, U.S. outlaw.
2. (italics) a ballet (1938) choreographed by Eugene Loring, with musical score by Aaron Copland.

Billy the Kid

noun

1. Billy the Kid18591881MUSCRIME AND POLICING: outlaw nickname of William H. Bonney . 1859–81, US outlaw

Billy the Kid

1. An outlaw of the late nineteenth century in New Mexico , who claimed to have killed over twenty people; he was gunned down himself at age twenty-one. His real name is uncertain.

Example Sentences

Thousands of Blackberry Messenger communications obtained through wiretaps allegedly show Oseguera González conducting cartel business under handles that included “Forrest Gump,” “Ice Man” and “Billy the Kid.”

From Los Angeles Times

No doubt there's a long history of Americans romanticizing criminals, going back at least to Jesse James or Billy the Kid, who became icons of the Wild West.

From Salon

Former President Trump was on another one of his screeds about how Democratic prosecutors were persecuting him, saying he’d been “investigated by the Democrats more than Billy the Kid, Jesse James and Al Capone combined.”

From Los Angeles Times

Much of his writing was set in the American West and Southwest, whether tributes to bears — the animals he most identified with — or a cycle of poems about the life of Billy the Kid, a childhood obsession.

From Seattle Times

But Blyth has quietly been on the rise since last year as he stars in MGM+ Western drama “Billy the Kid” and an episode in the HBO period drama “The Gilded Age.”

From Salon