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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See cowboy.

Wiktionary

  1. n. informal A cowboy

WordNet 3.0

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

Examples

  • “At any time he was ready with a sneer for what he called the cowpuncher's "grandstanding.”

    Steve Yeager

  • “The cowpuncher was a potential cattle-owner and good citizen, and if he went wild on occasion it was largely because he was so exuberantly young.”

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands

  • “The cowpuncher was a long-bodied man, smooth-muscled and lithe.”

    A Man Four-Square

  • “It came as a shock to her to realize that fact -- she was becoming as wild as this "cowpuncher" husband of hers, who even now was sallying forth with spade and ax to excavate a shallow grave in the frozen earth, to save a man's body from prowling wolves.”

    Colorado Jim

  • “Indeed her anger at the whole species called "cowpuncher" now focused to a burning-point on him of the gilded spurs.”

    Alcatraz

  • “Watching Mr. Brubeck treat the piano like a restless horse made me wonder whether he was still a cowpuncher at heart.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Ranching

  • “No cowpuncher would be fool enough to ride out at midnight in the dead of winter unless he had to.”

    Simon & Schuster: Come Again No More

  • “You just tend your cattle like a good little cowpuncher?”

    Fictionaut: A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air

  • “But it's doubtful that any cowpuncher of the day ever looked this spiffy, his outfit sparkling with a constellation of nickel-plated "dots" on his chinks, gun belt, and shotshell belt.”

    The Gun-Slingers

  • “IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AN UNLIKELY PAIR, match the fresh-faced girl with two earrings in her right ear sitting with the cowpuncher with the droopy gray mustache, sweat-stained hat, and dusty jeans.”

    Cancer Survivor Alyssa Iacoboni Goes on the Hunt of a Lifetime

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