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Meanings of cowpoke in English

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

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Usage of cowpoke in English
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They 'spin windies,' as my cowpoke brother used to say.
Solomon's oak: a novel
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And then, boom, blasting right through two big swinging doors like a drunken cowpoke.
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
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Just a friendly ole cowpoke herding a dumber'n cat-shit steer.
One for the money
4
Alabama 3 they are not, but Beck fans might recognise a similarity in the band's downbeat, urban cowpoke cross-fertilisation.
The Irish Times
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The man was wearing jeans and dusty cowpoke boots, but the shadows made it impossible to make out anything else.
Depraved
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In the trailer, a bowlegged cowpoke introduced himself as Shorty, and asked me, "You ever done this before?"
True compass: a memoir
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In this final book he has lost the aura of nobility and instead is just another cowpoke, cynical beyond his years.
The Irish Times
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Some cowpoke had swiped Xavier's last real bow tie, probably meaning to try and impress some girl somewhere up the trail.
Lonesome dove
9
Ang Lee's elegiac, heart-splintering cowpoke romance was universally predicted to make history as the first overtly gay story to take the Academy's top prize.
The Guardian
10
He had taken an armless chair, had turned it around backward, and was sitting on it like a range-ridin cowpoke in a John Ford Western.
The talisman
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None of these cowpokes is exactly wilderness hands.
Lonesome dove
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There'll be young fellas riding bareback and roughshod through the crowds with the disdain of cantankerous cowpokes.
The Irish Times
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I'm closer to learning the truth than anybody on the continent, and that includes the emperor's cowpokes."
Dreadnought
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A larger posse could easy send a man or two out in advance to clear the way before the cowpokes push the herd through.
Wired
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Most of the cowpokes who went north from Lonesome Dove just went to Kansas and thought that was far-but Montana must be twice as far.
Lonesome dove
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Her sister might be female, tall, and thin, but she had an appetite as big as any of the cowpokes who worked the Arlington ranch.
A vote of confidence
Cowpoke through the time