cowboy

cowboy is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. 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.
3. noun. a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback

   Synonyms: cattleman, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher

4. noun. someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)
5. noun. a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging

Synonyms

cattleman, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher

Common word forms

cowboys, cowboyed, cowboying

Words from these letters

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