Definitions
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- noun informal A
cowboy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
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Examples
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At any time he was ready with a sneer for what he called the cowpuncher's "grandstanding."
Steve Yeager William MacLeod Raine 1912
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The cowpuncher was a potential cattle-owner and good citizen, and if he went wild on occasion it was largely because he was so exuberantly young.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923
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The cowpuncher was a long-bodied man, smooth-muscled and lithe.
A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912
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It came as a shock to her to realize that fact -- she was becoming as wild as this "cowpuncher" husband of hers, who even now was sallying forth with spade and ax to excavate a shallow grave in the frozen earth, to save a man's body from prowling wolves.
Colorado Jim George Goodchild
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Indeed her anger at the whole species called "cowpuncher" now focused to a burning-point on him of the gilded spurs.
Alcatraz Max Brand 1918
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Watching Mr. Brubeck treat the piano like a restless horse made me wonder whether he was still a cowpuncher at heart.
Ranching Marc Myers 2010
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No cowpuncher would be fool enough to ride out at midnight in the dead of winter unless he had to.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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"You just tend your cattle like a good little cowpuncher?"
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No cowpuncher would be fool enough to ride out at midnight in the dead of winter unless he had to.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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No cowpuncher would be fool enough to ride out at midnight in the dead of winter unless he had to.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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