cowpuncher
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cowpuncher
Example Sentences
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After all, it is a snappy cowpuncher variation on Woody Guthrie’s “Dusty Old Dust/So Long It’s Been Good to Know Yuh” with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, the folk legend’s old musical partner, singing along.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
He is both corrupt and pure, a dynastic potentate in a helicopter and a solitary cowpuncher in the saddle.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2018
For more than 20 years, Best, a onetime cowpuncher, has run Canon City's stone prison with an iron fist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Textbooks are unable to contain the man who was a civil war unto himself: Eastern aristocrat and Western cowpuncher, intellectual and pugilist, reformer and clubhouse Republican, imperialist and trustbuster, warrior and peacemaker.
From Time Magazine Archive
What right had an indigent pauper of a cowpuncher to aspire to a heaven like this?
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
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