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UK
/kˈaʊpəʊk/
]
NOUN
- a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
How To Use cowpoke In A Sentence
- The moustachioed cowpoke said, ‘One of our boys is hurt and needs a sawbones.’
- The whole town turns cowpoke - if you are going, best pack a Stetson and learn to dance the two-step.
- Finally, on a high ridge overlooking the town of Empire, the cowpokes halted.
- From its start in the 1920s, it was a hobby - an amusing interpretation of American hobos and cowpokes.
- At first glance it seems an odd fit, this touch of cosmopolitan chic in a land of cowpokes and pickup trucks.
- And across the Inland Empire, in a multitude of saloons called ‘Mint bars’ and ‘Stockmen's bars,’ silver-dollar-jangling miners and cowpokes speak up loudly in a man's world, while the roads to something-else are still walked by cocky, freewheeling itinerant ranch hands, gandy dancers and bindlestiffs.
- In true cowpoke style, he downed the fiery arak the barman brought in one gulp, without thinking. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- Murals of deserts populated with wagon trails, circling bald eagles and cowpokes chasing cattle fill the walls.
- Wudi cowpoke poems in the day picking wild flowers hanging on the horn, called "cattle-birthday"(reportedly poems is the birthday of cattle).
- The cowpoke's folksy simile became ‘as high as an elephant's eye.’