Cowboy - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging
- someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)
Extra examples
He worked for several years as a cowboy on a ranch in Texas.
We've got a bunch of risk-taking cowboys running this project.
He cowboyed in Texas and Oklahoma.
...a daguerreotype of a cowboy whose face is roughened from a hard life in the open...
The singer is posing in jeans and cowboy boots on the album cover.
The cowboy leaped onto his horse.
The cowboy mounted his horse and then quickly dismounted.
He's wearing faded denims and cowboy boots.
He came onstage in a cowboy getup.
...the cowboy could throw a lariat around a running steer's head from 20 yards away...
The cowboy lassoed the horse.
The little boy pranced across the room in his cowboy costume.
A tribute to tenacity, the free ascent of Trango Tower was the fulfillment of a cowboy climber's dream.
He's perhaps best known for his role in 'Midnight Cowboy.'
Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?
Word forms
singular: cowboy
plural: cowboys
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