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Cowboy


Definition:

  • (n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
  • (n.) One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.

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  • (1) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
  • (2) 18) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 Needs: Offensive line, safety, defensive tackle, running back Pick: Kenny Vaccaro, safety, Texas Tony Romo often carries the can for the Cowboys' offensive calamities, but the truth is that not many quarterbacks look great when they are running for their lives.
  • (3) Now Brokeback Mountain, the tragic love story of two American cowboys, is looking to again chart new territory.
  • (4) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
  • (5) Eagles 17 - Cowboys 7 - 1:25 remaining 2nd quarter Bang bang!
  • (6) The Cowboys, meanwhile, move to 7-3 and are back on the play-off road after a couple of recent bumps.
  • (7) The Cowboys had one last chance to beat the Eagles but Kyle Orton, doing his best Tony Romo impersonation, threw an interception to end Dallas hopes.
  • (8) We've all timed our visit to coincide with the annual corrida , a cattle round-up in which all the area's vaqueros (cowboys) unite to retrieve more than 500 cows from all across the range.
  • (9) The former Foreign Office official, who has known Steele for 25 years and considers him a friend, said: “The idea his work is fake or a cowboy operation is false – completely untrue.
  • (10) Much has been made of the personal battle being waged by Dez Bryant and Calvin Johnson at Ford Field, but it is instead Terrance Williams who blows this game open, scoring on a 60-yard catch-and-run to make it Cowboys 20-10 Lions .
  • (11) A good starting point is 1972's The Cowboys, in which Dern became the first man to kill John Wayne in a movie.
  • (12) Some of it is still naff, but that's bootcut-jeans-wearing cowboys for you.
  • (13) And it doesn't, because their film was released on the same day as Hollywood blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens , starring proven money-maker Daniel Craig.
  • (14) Her real passion has always been 1970s character films: Badlands, Midnight Cowboy and Bonnie And Clyde.
  • (15) Then, in 1963, driving to attend a memorial service for Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, country stars who had died in a plane crash, Anglin was killed in a car accident.
  • (16) After a coroner recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at the inquest in Oxford in October, his family said US forces had been allowed to behave like "trigger-happy cowboys" and called for charges against those responsible.
  • (17) Christie, well known for his love of sports teams including the Dallas Cowboys, kicked off his visit by attending Arsenal’s 5-0 Premier League win over Aston Villa at the Emirates Stadium.
  • (18) And partly because too many European companies have a no-questions-asked policy towards every broker and cowboy willing to take troublesome waste off their hands.
  • (19) 3) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 The Cowboys have enough talent on their roster to be a play-off team.
  • (20) Alongside any stronger regime for penalties, we would urge measures to tackle domestic and small scale flytipping, for example, by unregistered ‘cowboy’ builders and householders who evade their responsibilities to dispose of waste properly.” Councillor Peter Box, the Local Government Association’s environment spokesman said: “Waste crime costs taxpayers tens of millions of pounds every year and is a burden on businesses, and residents.

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