Holliday, John, ‘Doc’ BrE AmE
(1849–1887), a friend of the US ↑ marshal Wyatt Earp. He fought on the side of Earp and his brothers in the ↑ gunfight at the ↑ OK Corral . He was a ↑ gambler and ↑ dentist , and one of the most dangerous gunfighters of the wild west. He died of ↑ tuberculosis .