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buckaroo

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˌbʌkəˈɹuː/Part of speech nounSorted abckooruStarts with BEnds with O0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. local names for a cowboy (‘vaquero’ is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and ‘buckaroo’ is used especially in California)

Word origin

Modified from Spanish vaquero (“cowboy”), with the spelling influenced by buck (“(noun) male antelope, deer, etc.; adventurous or high-spirited young man; (verb) of a horse, etc.: to leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward”). Doublet of vaquero.

Used in a sentence

  • Many cowboy poets have a buckaroo look and feel about them.
  • Don’t run in looking for a fight like some kind of buckaroo.
  • That’ll be twenty buckaroos, buddy.

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