[
US
/ˈkaʊˌbɔɪ/
]
[ UK /kˈaʊbɔɪ/ ]
[ UK /kˈaʊbɔɪ/ ]
NOUN
- a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
- someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)
- a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging
How To Use cowboy In A Sentence
- Thus, transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize (the cowboy kicked the bucket, but not * the bucket was kicked by the cowboy). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
- There can be few museums in the world whose range of exhibits includes a stuffed, 5ft-long, prehistoric fish and a pair of unworn, extremely expensive, blue cowboy-boots.
- We need our renegade cowboy president out of office
- In fact, this was a players' production, as most Cowboys performances, and frankly most football games, are.
- The whole state has kind of a cowboy-Saudi glitter to it when the oil is expensive, and kind of a sepia-Joad craquelure to it when the oil is cheap. Kenneth Hite's Journal
- Several Cowboys, most notably cornerback Deion Sanders, are due to receive substantial amounts of money that year.
- Maybe the cowboy in us prefers the saloon tart to the civilizing schoolmarm.
- An atmosphere of an old American cow town is being presented with cowboys in western gear walking around town.
- Hip-hop, cowboy wind, and the wind wind wind, occupation, fur, all-match, hippie, ladies fashion, Korean, Japanese, what is it Fashion is the urban special logo, is a city in the vast city of special psychological needs.
- The cow answered to its cowboy's touch.