Definitions for cowboy
ˈkaʊˌbɔɪcow·boy

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd(noun)

   a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback

2. cowboy, rodeo rider(noun)

   a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging

3. cowboy(noun)

   someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. cowboy(Noun)

   A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.

2. cowboy(Noun)

   A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music.

3. cowboy(Noun)

   A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off.

4. cowboy(Noun)

   A dishonest and/or incompetent independent tradesman.

5. cowboy(Noun)

   A playing card of king rank.

6. cowboy(Verb)

   To work as a cowboy, herding cattle.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Cowboy(noun)

   a cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States

2. Cowboy(noun)

   one of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans

Freebase(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Cowboy

   A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. The historic American cowboy of the late 19th century arose from the vaquero traditions of northern Mexico and became a figure of special significance and legend. A subtype, called a wrangler, specifically tends the horses used to work cattle. In addition to ranch work, some cowboys work for or participate in rodeos. Cowgirls, first defined as such in the late 19th century, had a less-well documented historical role, but in the modern world have established the ability to work at virtually identical tasks and obtained considerable respect for their achievements. There are also cattle handlers in many other parts of the world, particularly South America and Australia, who perform work similar to the cowboy in their respective nations. The cowboy has deep historic roots tracing back to Spain and the earliest European settlers of the Americas. Over the centuries, differences in terrain, climate and the influence of cattle-handling traditions from multiple cultures created several distinct styles of equipment, clothing and animal handling. As the ever-practical cowboy adapted to the modern world, the cowboy's equipment and techniques also adapted to some degree, though many classic traditions are still preserved today.

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1. cowboy

   [Sun, from William Gibson's cyberpunk SF] Synonym for hacker. It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence.

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1. cowboy

   Song lyrics by cowboy -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by cowboy on the Lyrics.com website.

How to pronounce cowboy?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say cowboy in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cowboy in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cowboy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of cowboy in a Sentence

1. Conductor Ludwig Wicki:

   For me it's a combination of music and horses and landscapes. When I was young I dreamed to be a cowboy, and I think that's what Western is, it's a dream for mostly boys, to be a cowboy or an Indian, and have these beautiful clothes, we played that in the forest, and that's still in my heart.

2. Ben Cooper as Sam Kirby:

   They let me play cowboy, and they paid me [ for it ].

3. Rose Dickinson:

   The government's plans pervert the planning process and could make England's landscape a wild west for whatever cowboy wants to start drilling and digging up our countryside.

4. George Lucas:

   Han Solo was going to marry Leia, and you look back and say, 'Should he be a cold-blooded killer?' because I was thinking mythologically -- should he be a cowboy, should he be John Wayne? And I said, 'Yeah, he should be John Wayne.' And when you're John Wayne, you don't shoot people (first) -- you let them have the first shot. It's a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to.

5. Jim Magagna:

   We are proud of the true image of the real cowboy or cowgirl, often of very diverse race or ethnicity, riding the range on a well-groomed horse while sporting a cowboy hat, chaps, spurs and a rope.

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