buckaroos

noun

variants also buckeroos
plural of buckaroo
as in cowboys
a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range a rip-roaring buckaroo of the Old West

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Recent Examples of buckaroos This hearty meal will satisfy your little (and big) buckaroos. — Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 13 June 2026 The clue [Bills worth 100 buckaroos] has a slang word in it, so the answer must be a slang word. — New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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cowboys
Noun
  • Despite Villa Domínguez’s nine remaining Jews, the museum remains an important part of the town, tracing the history of Argentinian Jewish ranchers, farmers and the cowboys known as gauchos.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • At the same time, Harris, closer in age to his part than the women, moves and sounds like the old cowboys, with an affecting note of sorrow — the lion dying, and dying with regrets — sounding throughout his performance.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of cowboys

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