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Cowboy - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Cowboy : (noun)
1: a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on
horseback [syn: cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman,
cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd]
2: a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and
bulldogging [syn: rodeo rider]
3: someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in
driving vehicles)
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Cowboy : \Cow"boy`\ (-boi`), n.
1. A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an
adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of
the Western and Southwestern United States.
2. One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War
infested the neutral ground between the American and
British lines, and committed depredations on the
Americans.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Cowboy :
[Sun, from William Gibson's cyberpunk SF] Synonym
for hacker. It is reported that at Sun this word is often
said with reverence.
[{Jargon File]
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Cowboy : n. [Sun, from William Gibson's cyberpunk SF] Synonym for
hacker. It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with
reverence.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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