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
Willis first tapped Chad Freeman as the new cowboy in his 2017 reforming of the band, but Freeman was replaced by Nicholas Manelick in 2021.
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 20 Jan. 2025
Sometimes, older cowboys would pay him a quarter to do so.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 19 Jan. 2025
Its 45 larger-than-life figures—cowboys on horseback, women riding sidesaddle, and lots of covered wagons— make up one of the world’s largest bronze sculpture installations.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2025
That was my experience at Rebuilding, in which Josh O’Connor plays a cowboy who’s just lost the family farm in a massive wildfire, and who’s struggling to put his life back together.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 20 Jan. 2025
Sometimes, older cowboys would pay him a quarter to do so.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 19 Jan. 2025
Its 45 larger-than-life figures—cowboys on horseback, women riding sidesaddle, and lots of covered wagons— make up one of the world’s largest bronze sculpture installations.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2025
That was my experience at Rebuilding, in which Josh O’Connor plays a cowboy who’s just lost the family farm in a massive wildfire, and who’s struggling to put his life back together.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cowboy
Noun
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Younger kids can choose from a selection of small plates portioned for cowpokes.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
17 July 2024
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His fictional protagonists have included ornery cowpokes and professors of esoterica.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
12 June 2024
Noun
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The term Cowboy became widely popular for the trade and subsequently was whitewashed to then exclude Black cowhands from the history books.—
Stephanie Tharpe,
Forbes,
25 Dec. 2024
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Houston is also home to the rodeo, the country’s oldest Black trail ride, and Black cowboy culture — in 1800s Texas, one in four cowhands were Black.—
Maria Sherman,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2024
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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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Bella Hadid has returned from playing the starring role in Rodeo and Juliet–a sort of real-life rom-com where an international supermodel falls in love with a simple Texan cowman and realizes there is a life beyond New York, London, Paris and Milan–and is (more importantly) back in capri pants.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
2 May 2024
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McGuinn’s handshake indicated that, indeed, the farmer and the cowman, or the country traditionalist and the Byrd-man, could be friends.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
16 Jan. 2022
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Many ranchers and feedlot operators are transparent about their practices, providing consumers with the information needed to make informed choices.—
Arturo Macias Franco,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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It’s located in a vast, flat region filled with ranchers and peanut and cotton farmers.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC News,
14 Feb. 2025
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At the same time, Burgum is himself an avid horseman, hunter, skier, and hiker and has been a booster of outdoor recreation in North Dakota, creating the state’s Office of Outdoor Recreation and allocating $1.2 million in grants for trail building.—
Frederick Reimers,
Outside Online,
27 Jan. 2025
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The heir apparent was his older brother Bassel—a military commander and an accomplished horseman whom the regime’s loyalists sometimes referred to as the Golden Knight.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Cowboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cowboy. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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