Definitions for: Cowboy

[n] someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)
[n] a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging
[n] a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback

Webster (1913) Definition: Cow"boy` (-boi`), n.
1. 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. 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.

Synonyms: cattleman, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher, rodeo rider

See Also: adventurer, bronco buster, buckaroo, buckeroo, cowgirl, gaucho, horse wrangler, performer, performing artist, ranch hand, roper, vaquero, venturer, wrangler

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