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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A cowboy of the South American pampas.
  2. n. Calf-length pants with flared legs.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A native of the pampas of South America, of Spanish descent. The Gauchos are noted for their spirit of wild independence, for daring horsemanship, and for skilful use of the lasso and bolas. Their mode of life is rude and uncivilized, and they depend for subsistence chiefly on cattle-rearing. They have been very prominent in the numerous South American revolutions, but are gradually disappearing as a distinct class.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A cowboy of the South American pampas.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One of the native inhabitants of the South American pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle. Hence, a South American cowboy, especially on the pampas.
  2. n. A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a cowboy of the South American pampas

Etymologies

  1. From Spanish gaucho, from Andalusi. (Wiktionary)
  2. American Spanish, probably from Quechua wáhcha, poor person, orphan, vagabond. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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