Usually means: Skilled horse rider, western herder.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word cowboy:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. cowboy: Merriam-Webster
  2. cowboy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cowboy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cowboy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cowboy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cowboy, cowboy: Wordnik
  7. cowboy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cowboy: Wiktionary
  9. cowboy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cowboy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cowboy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cowboy, cowboy: Dictionary.com
  13. cowboy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Cowboy (Ch!pz song), Cowboy (Erasure), Cowboy (Kid Rock song), Cowboy (M*A*S*H), Cowboy (album), Cowboy (band), Cowboy (billiards), Cowboy (disambiguation), Cowboy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cowboy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cowboy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cowboy: Rhymezone
  18. Cowboy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cowboy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cowboy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cowboy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. cowboy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cowboy: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. cowboy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cowboy, cowboy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cowboy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Cowboy: A Seattle Lexicon
  4. the cowboy: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cowboy: Dan's Poker
  2. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  3. Cowboy: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See cowboying as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
noun:  A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music.
noun:  (informal) A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off.
noun:  (British, informal) A dishonest or incompetent independent tradesman.
noun:  (card games, slang) A playing card of king rank.
verb:  (intransitive) To work as a cowboy, herding cattle.
noun:  (uncountable) Short for cowboy pool. [A game derived from English billiards, with more of the characteristics of standard pocket billiards, and with players competing to reach a total of 101 points by performing various types of shot.]

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