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  • noun Plural form of cowboy.

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Examples

  • As one of the cowboys from the Apollo Program and one of the Constellation definers some of you people need to do some research about what actually happen to the Apollo Applications Program and what are the real technologies that are available to NASA that are not identified for use by Constellation.

    Things We Used To Do - NASA Watch 2009

  • At table sat men from all the world and chiefs from distant tribes -- Englishmen and Colonials, lean Yankee traders and rotund officials of the great companies, cowboys from the Western ranges, sailors from the sea, hunters and dog-mushers of a score of nationalities.

    The Wit of Porportuk 2010

  • I had a natural interest in cowboys and Indians, horses and boats, etc. and his stuff was enchanting for me.

    wyeth & peterson | the local artist « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Many of them can trace their lineage to cowboys from the old South.

    Black Cowboys Seek Their Place in History 2010

  • Each Binion silver dollar features a special NGC pedigree label that for the first time is in a color (green) and depicts three cowboys from the Old West.

    Fx Mint | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Once it grew dark, we called the cowboys out from the bunkhouse, and Jim pulled the hearse up next to the tree.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • Once it grew dark, we called the cowboys out from the bunkhouse, and Jim pulled the hearse up next to the tree.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • Once it grew dark, we called the cowboys out from the bunkhouse, and Jim pulled the hearse up next to the tree.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • He noted that 80,000 handbills had been distributed, house-to-house searches conducted, 2,000 lodgers questioned, and inquiries made of sailors on the Thames, Asians in London's opium dens, Greek gypsies, and cowboys from the American Exhibition.

    Jack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London. Robert F. Haggard Robert F. Haggard 1993

  • At table sat men from all the world and chiefs from distant tribes -- Englishmen and Colonials, lean Yankee traders and rotund officials of the great companies, cowboys from the Western ranges, sailors from the sea, hunters and dog-mushers of a score of nationalities.

    The Wit of Porportuk 1910

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