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
Gilbert Wright, now a writer, used to be a cowpuncher, a lifeguard, a utility technician, a tutor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Against him appeared SEC's Associated Gas specialist, a young Texas cowpuncher named Lewis Dabney.
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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