CODY

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• CODY (noun)
  The noun CODY has 1 sense:

1. United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)

  Familiarity information: CODY used as a noun is very rare.

• CODY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Buffalo Bill; Buffalo Bill Cody; Cody; William F. Cody; William Frederick Cody

Instance hypernyms:

impresario; promoter; showman (a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments)

 Context examples 

That? That's Mr. Dan Cody, old sport.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

It was indirectly due to Cody that Gatsby drank so little.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

And it was from Cody that he inherited money—a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I suppose he smiled at Cody—he had probably discovered that people liked him when he smiled.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

At any rate Cody asked him a few questions (one of them elicited the brand new name) and found that he was quick, and extravagantly ambitious.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Cody was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since Seventy-five.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Then he drifted back to Lake Superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows along shore.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Some one started to ask me questions but I broke away and going upstairs looked hastily through the unlocked parts of his desk—he'd never told me definitely that his parents were dead. But there was nothing—only the picture of Dan Cody, a token of forgotten violence staring down from the wall.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody—told it to me because Jay Gatsby had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)