as in cowboy
a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range
it takes a long time to train a good cowpoke
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Younger kids can choose from a selection of small plates portioned for cowpokes.
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Outside Online, 17 July 2024
His fictional protagonists have included ornery cowpokes and professors of esoterica.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
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
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
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Outside Online, 17 July 2024
His fictional protagonists have included ornery cowpokes and professors of esoterica.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
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
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
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cowboy
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Malone describes moving to Denver 50-plus years ago with his wife, Leslie, and falling in love with the beauty of the Rockies, the cowboy culture, the clean air, and the ethic of freedom dominant in the West at the time.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
1 Feb. 2026
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Bella Hadid's relationship with cowboy prodigy Adan Banuelos has quietly come to an end a little after two years of dating.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Cowpoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cowpoke. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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