buckaroo
/ˌbʌkəˈruː
/noun North American dated
A cowboy.Some buckaroos will protest that the list is unfair to Westerns because it reflects only present-day movie tastes....
- While they share language and heritage, cowboys and buckaroos differ in their working styles, saddles, land and property ownership standards, legal cultures, and in almost everything else.
- It's a pad that has hosted the kind of parties you hear about for years after the actual event - we're talking wild buckaroo Stampede breakfast parties with bands catching beer thrown by people perched on garage roofs.
Origin
Early 19th century: alteration of vaquero.
Rhymes
- post-AIDS
- postal
- postal ballot
- postal car
- postal card
- postal clerk
- postal code
- postal currency
- postal district
- postal draft
- postal guide
- postalise
- postalize
- postally
- postal money order
- postal note
- postal order
- postal service
- postal station
- postal telegraph
- postal trade
- postal tube
- postal union
- post-alveolar
- postal vote