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
Much like Lamar, she and her backup dancers performed in pure Americana fashion—all-white cowboy attire—and used American iconography to reclaim Black history.
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Alexandra Polk, refinery29.com, 10 Feb. 2025
O’Connor stars as Dusty, a cowboy who has lost everything in a recent wildfire that decimated his small Colorado town.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025
The Western trend that swept denim fashion in 2024 flung the cowboy fit back into the spotlight.
—Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 13 Feb. 2025
There’s a warmth and a patina to Alief that Navis wanted to stress as a home base, but also some genuine cowboy, Southwest aesthetic that was part of the fun of other environments Mo ends up in.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2025
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Alexandra Polk, refinery29.com, 10 Feb. 2025
O’Connor stars as Dusty, a cowboy who has lost everything in a recent wildfire that decimated his small Colorado town.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025
The Western trend that swept denim fashion in 2024 flung the cowboy fit back into the spotlight.
—Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 13 Feb. 2025
There’s a warmth and a patina to Alief that Navis wanted to stress as a home base, but also some genuine cowboy, Southwest aesthetic that was part of the fun of other environments Mo ends up in.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 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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Tractor Supply, which sells home and garden supplies and clothing to farmers and ranchers, in June ended a DEI program that had aimed to help put people of color in management roles and boost funding to education programs for Black Americans.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
6 Mar. 2025
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Colorado farmers, ranchers and businesses were awarded funds geared specifically to rural areas.—
Judith Kohler,
The Denver Post,
6 Mar. 2025
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Hot Springs horseman Ted Bowman owns Speed King, a Volatile colt, whose next race at Oaklawn has not been determined, Moquett said, in a second post-Southwest workout.—
Bob Wisener,
arkansasonline.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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Pedestrians captured by safety cameras can be rendered as zombies onscreen, with cyclists and motorcycles appearing as headless horsemen.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Cowboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cowboy. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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