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The Meaning of cowboy
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(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.
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(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