COWPOKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cowpoke mean? 

• COWPOKE (noun)
  The noun COWPOKE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COWPOKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COWPOKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cattleman; cowboy; cowhand; cowherd; cowman; cowpoke; cowpuncher; puncher

Hypernyms ("cowpoke" is a kind of...):

ranch hand (a hired hand on a ranch)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cowpoke"):

buckaroo; buckeroo; vaquero (local names for a cowboy ('vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and 'buckaroo' is used especially in California))

cowgirl (a woman cowboy)

gaucho (a cowboy of the South American pampas)

horse wrangler; wrangler (a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses)

roper (a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses)