cowboy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkaʊˌbɔɪ/
cowboy (plural cowboys)
- A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
- A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music.
- (informal) A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off.
- (British, informal) A dishonest and/or incompetent independent tradesman.
- (card games, slang) A playing card of king rank.
- French: cow-boy, cowboy, vacher
- German: Cowboy
- Italian: mandriano, vaccaio, vaccaro
- Portuguese: vaqueiro, caubói
- Russian: ковбо́й
- Spanish: vaquero, gaucho, huaso, llanero
cowboy (cowboys, present participle cowboying; past and past participle cowboyed)
- (intransitive) To work as a cowboy, herding cattle.
- 1994, Sherry Robinson, El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains: a hiking guide and history
- Besides cowboying he worked at a small sawmill that cut logs into "four slabs and a tie" and sold ties to the railroad.
- 1995, American Cowboy (volume 2, number 4, Nov-Dec 1995, page 26)
- Derwood Bailey cowboyed for 50 cents a day, a noon meal, and a gallon of oats for his horse.
- 2003, C. J. Hadley, Trappings of the Great Basin Buckaroo
- I still had never ridden or cowboyed, and I wanted to learn something about it. I'd been making the damn saddles for years but didn't know how to use them.
- 1994, Sherry Robinson, El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains: a hiking guide and history
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