as in cowpoke
a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range
cowboys were rounding up the cattle for branding
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Recent Examples of cowboy
Eager to watch the cowboys from America go at it, the old men encouraged a scrimmage.
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Will Grant, Outside Online, 11 June 2025
And this time, Hollywood's most prolific cowboy is headed to the deep South.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 June 2025
Quirky roadside figures include giant cowboys, lumberjacks, and dinosaurs.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025
Irish actor Jack Hudson has signed for the cast of feature adaptation of Matthew Dickens’s comic The Devil’s Train about Hollywood stuntman Hondo, who has a double life as a time-travelling cowboy.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 June 2025
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Will Grant, Outside Online, 11 June 2025
And this time, Hollywood's most prolific cowboy is headed to the deep South.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 June 2025
Quirky roadside figures include giant cowboys, lumberjacks, and dinosaurs.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025
Irish actor Jack Hudson has signed for the cast of feature adaptation of Matthew Dickens’s comic The Devil’s Train about Hollywood stuntman Hondo, who has a double life as a time-travelling cowboy.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cowboy
Noun
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The Player’s Guide details how to build a character, whether its just a common cowpoke or one of the more unusual options like a huckster or blessed.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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It’s been ten weeks since the robbery, and Theresa and Shermy the dog are the last two urban cowpokes standing at the old makeshift homestead motel.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates Clint Eastwood portrayed Rowdy Yates, the young cowhand who eventually matures into a leader.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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Things are also taking a turn for the worse in Texas, where Runs His Horse successfully tracks down the ranch cowhands that interrupted Pete and Teonna’s tryst.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2025
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The Supreme Court had already decided that yes, indeed, Texas — which spent a hundred million buckaroos a year on California produce — could throw up its own quarantine on Golden State goods.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Oct. 2024
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The group disqualifies him, however, after researchers discover his buckaroo abilities are limited to wearing expensive Stetson hats and tripping on his lasso.—
Gustavo ArellanoColumnist,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Dec. 2022
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The picture-perfect cowman’s paradise of Stockyards City is true to its stripes—and nowhere is this more evident than in Cattlemen’s Steakhouse.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
29 Mar. 2025
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The reply of my friend and hunting companion was one of those quaint, rasping epithets which only a cowman can manage when everything has gone wrong.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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In India, for example, vulture populations dropped by 95 percent from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, after ranchers started treating their livestock with the painkiller diclofenac.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 June 2025
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The bill to reboot the plate was sponsored by Rep. Douglas Pickett, an Oakley Republican and rancher, and was introduced on Feb. 11.—
Amaia Gavica,
Idaho Statesman,
14 June 2025
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There were escorts from fighter jets and flag-bearing Arabian horsemen.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Here came Tyrese Haliburton, Pascal Siakam, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams as the four horsemen of the ratings apocalypse.—
Mike Vorkunov,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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“Cowboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cowboy. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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