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The Meaning of cowboy

  • (n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
  • (n.) One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.

Synonyms

cowpuncher , beef man , cattleman , cowhand , puncher , cow man , cowherd , cowpoke , punch , cowman , rodeo rider

Rhymes

ahoy , alloy , alroy , annoy , attaboy , bellboy , bolshoi , boy , boye , brayboy , broy , busboy , carboy , choi , choy , cloy , convoy , corduroy , coy , coye , croix , croy , deboy , decoy , dejoy , deploy , destroy , doi , doughboy , elroy , employ , enjoy , fauntleroy , fitzroy , flournoy , floy , foy , foye , gilroy , goy , highboy , hoi , hoy , hoye , illinois , iroquois , joy , joye , kilroy , knoy , kroy , laboy , lacroix , lafoy , lamboy , lavoy , leroy , loy , loye , malloy , mccloy , mccoy , mcelroy , mcilroy , mcvoy , milroy , moy , oi , oie , oy , oye , playboy , ploy , polloi , pomeroy , quemoy , redeploy , roi , roy , roye , savoy , scheu , schoolboy , sgroi , soy , stoy , tolstoy , tomboy , toy , troy , underemploy , unemploy , woy , yoy