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Recent Examples of cowpoke Real 19th-century cowpokes typically dressed in heavy canvas trousers, bowlers and wore rawhide chaps as armor against thorny vegetation and the general filth of the job. Guy Trebay, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024 His fictional protagonists have ranged from ornery cowpokes to professors of esoterica. Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024 In the video, directed by Nicki Fletcher and Mason Allen, the two women walk around a rodeo as men ride bucking broncos, Murph raps a little, and the two women end up telling the cowpokes off. Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023 Order this: The two-meat place is a cowpoke’s delight. Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 6 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for cowpoke
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cowboy
Noun
  • Maybe that’s why, 20 years on, the film still feels devastatingly real: The delusion is not unique to two cowboys on a mountain.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2025
  • Until then, so long, cowboy. Head-turn of the century (episode 14) Jeremiah appears to deliberate until the last second before deciding to recouple with bombshell Iris, leaving Huda single and vulnerable.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 21 June 2025

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“Cowpoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cowpoke. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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