buckaroo

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of BUCKAROO

a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range <a rip-roaring buckaroo of the Old West>

Synonyms buckaroo (also buckeroo), cowhand, cowman, cowpoke, cowpuncher, waddy (or waddie) [West], wrangler

Related Words cowgirl; caballero [chiefly Southwest], gaucho, vaquero; horseman, horsewoman; cattleman, rancher, stockman; cowherd, drover, herder, herdsman

buckaroo also buckeroo

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