cowboy

Definition

  • noun: a man who rides a horse and whose job is to take care of cows or horses especially in the western U.S.
  • noun: one who tends cattle or horses
  • verb: to work as a cowboy
  • sometimes used before another noun
  • synonyms: drover, cowherd

Examples

  • We've got a bunch of risk-taking 'cowboys' running this project.

  • He worked for several years as a 'cowboy' on a ranch in Texas.

  • a movie about 'cowboys' in the old West

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) ...returns. Come here, Charles. My sister got herself killed in a car crash. Not too far now, Marcee! Her cowboy husband was too drunk to know that he was too drunk to drive. So, I took her in. - She's so small. - She's young. That's how they come. I'm at Harvard... (..)
    2001 A Beautiful Mind