cowboy
a form of address for someone, usually a man or boy, that you are speaking to in a friendly or sometimes a slightly annoyed way:
If you don't know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek, then move along, buckaroo.
He cracked jokes and called me buckaroo.
The deserts and mountains are inhabited by California quail, mountain sheep, mustangs and a few buckaroos.
Ranch buckaroos regularly set fire to land in controlled burns to rejuvenate the grasses.
Anglos coined the word buckaroo, their way of saying "vaquero", because they disliked the word cowboy and did not want to call themselves by that name.
I had never seen him without his buckaroo hat.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases People who work with animals
apiarist
beekeeper
breeder
cowboy
cowgirl
dogcatcher
drover
gaucho
goatherd
groomer
jackaroo
jillaroo
mahout
milker
ostler
shepherd
shepherdess
stable boy
stockman
stockwoman
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Affectionate terms of address