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cowpunchers

cowpunchers is the plural of cowpuncher.

Meaning of cowpuncher

Noun

cowpuncher (plural cowpunchers)

  1. (informal) A cowboy
    • The miscellaneous setting of horses, dogs, saddles, wagons, guns, and cow-punchers' paraphernalia oppressed the metropolitan eye of the wrecked sportsman.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 174, column 1

Questions about cowpunchers

What is cowpunchers the plural of?
Cowpunchers is the plural of cowpuncher.

Words near cowpunchers in the dictionary

  1. cowpoxviruses
  2. cowproof
  3. cowps
  4. cowpunch
  5. cowpuncher
  6. cowpunchers
  7. cowpunches
  8. cowpunching
  9. cowpunk
  10. cowpunks
  11. cowquake

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