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cowboy boot

American  

noun

  1. a boot with a chunky, moderately high slanted heel, usually pointed toe, and decorative stitching or tooling, extending to mid-calf.

Etymology

Origin of cowboy boot

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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“A group of sweet seniors shyly asked Costner to pose for a picture with them as he waited at a red light, tapping his cowboy boot in irritation.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

Without knowing what it was, I use my notebook to fling it into the ground, where she squashed it with her purple cowboy boot.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2023

The cowboy boot is one of them, nestled in the slender Venn diagram center of masculinizing footwear and height-augmenting footwear.

From Slate • Mar. 7, 2023

Partners Logan Caldbeck and Colt Miller handmake Western-inspired leather ankle boots and mules in different leather options using the same techniques as small-shop cowboy boot markers.

From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2022

Dorian picked up a cowboy boot from which a heel had been broken and dropped it into a wastebasket, wondering whether that impossible Ignatius J. Reilly was all right.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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