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Meanings of cowboy in English

Russian
ковбой
Portuguese
cowboy
Spanish
cowboy
Catalan
cowboy
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f. yeehaw girl

Animal herder.

        Related terms
        ковбой
        Portuguese
        cowboy
        Catalan
        vaquer

        A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback.

            cowboy
            Spanish
            cowboy

            A performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging.

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                  Usage of cowboy in English
                  1
                  Indeed, President Vladimir Putin increasingly plays the role of cowboy, not collaborator.
                  The Guardian
                  2
                  I guess Gillian Jones couldn't expect to corner the cowboy market forever.
                  Pasta Imperfect
                  3
                  The cowboy noticed that the unconscious woman still gripped the gilt clock.
                  Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life
                  4
                  George Mitchell recently compared the negotiations at Stormont to a cowboy film.
                  The Irish Times
                  5
                  The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.
                  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
                  6
                  The cowboy or military style and seat are the only practicable ones.
                  The Mountains
                  7
                  The cowboy picked her up and carried her to the waiting ambulance.
                  Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
                  8
                  The cowboy helped her into the ambulance and found himself a seat.
                  Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
                  9
                  He found the bear stone dead and that the cowboy had fainted.
                  Dave Porter at Star Ranch; Or, The Cowboy's Secret
                  10
                  He really outdid the most fanciful cowboy of the far western ranches.
                  The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the...
                  11
                  Being a cowboy is, more than anything else, a state of mind.
                  The new yorker
                  12
                  Apparently the news that Fox had brought was unknown to the cowboy.
                  The Sheriff's Son
                  13
                  The cowboy gazed defiantly at the slender lad for a full moment.
                  The Pony Rider Boys in Texas; Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plain...
                  14
                  The room into which the cowboy had passed was a harness shop.
                  Oh, You Tex!
                  15
                  He rides like those latter-day centaurs-theAustralian ranger and the American cowboy.
                  Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
                  16
                  That big cowboy was never seen in that part of Texas afterward.
                  Fred Fearnot's New Ranch / and How He and Terry Managed It
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