Sentence examples for buckaroo from inspiring English sources
noun
A cowboy, specifically, a working cowboy who generally does not do rodeos.
Pioneers from the United States encountered the vaquero (Spanish, literally, "cowboy"; English "buckaroo") on ranches in Texas about 1820, and some pioneers mastered his skills the use of lariat, saddle, spurs, and branding iron.
The man at the bank said that the cowboy was an old-time rambling buckaroo, who'd stopped making his mortgage payments because "he was looking for a quit".
I think the buckaroo and his bride have a better chance than the narrator and Monika.
In Washington Square last Sunday, we watched a young buckaroo, perhaps five, waving a cap pistol and holding off four of his contemporaries.
According to the corrido scholar Elijah Wald, this is why so many cowboy words, such as "lasso," "rodeo," "bronco," "buckaroo," "canyon," and galón, which means braid, as in ten-gallon hat — a hat tall enough for ten braids — are Spanish.
As I said many times to Eric Bristow, if I have saved the life of one unborn buckaroo, that is "winning" for me.
And without bimonthly federal inspections, without any legal charter past a friend or two he called "our Board," that man could shake you down for exactly the number of buckaroos you'd actually part with.
But the ones who stayed came, under de Mille's coaching, to look like serious buckaroos, riding invisible horses (this mime act is one of the glories of the ballet) and slapping their thighs with great, heterosexual enthusiasm.
It idealises its lowlifes as if they were arcadian shepherds, not so very remote from the outlaws, buckaroos, rodeo riders and Appalachian rustics in Aaron Copland's ballets.
My mother was one of them; like the women here, she was beautiful and, between husbands, ended up at a Reno dude ranch, where she enjoyed the sport of romancing the buckaroos so much that she asked that her ashes be dumped in the Nevada foothills.
In his heyday, he advocated sensible precepts for little buckaroos of all ages in his 10 Roy Rogers Riders Club Rules ("Be brave but never take chances"), which took a page out of Gene Autry's Ten Commandments of a Cowboy ("The cowboy must not take unfair advantage of an enemy").
