What's the difference between cowpuncher and puncher?

Cowpuncher


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Puncher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, punches.

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  • (1) Now it’s my era.” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs), whose lone career defeat was a majority-decision loss to Floyd Mayweather in 2013, was thought to be the faster and stronger fighter and he showed it on Saturday night, consistently landing the harder, more meaningful blows against one of this generation’s finest boxer-punchers, mostly getting off first.
  • (2) And I’m in control of doing the things that he wants me to do in the campaign.” When Trump, who has often bragged about being “a counter-puncher”, went after the Khans, no one inside the camp was quick enough to spot the controversy.
  • (3) The popular red-headed puncher from Guadalajara won a unanimous decision over Miguel Cotto on Saturday night to capture the WBC and lineal middleweight titles at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
  • (4) Johnson was a puncher-boxer and dandy; Dempsey an uncomplicated hitter; Tunney had grace and nerve and fast feet; Louis’s fast hands punched in a blur of combinations, and he had a killer instinct as well as chivalry; Marciano had relentless oomph and steam-hammer cruelty.
  • (5) Rather they defended stoutly to retain a puncher's chance.
  • (6) A method is described whereby open field behaviour of rats can be automatically registered using a TV camera, a video converter, an X-Y recorder and a papertape puncher.
  • (7) The other thought I took away from that Canelo-Mosley bout was that Canelo is a highly efficient puncher, landing a high percentage.
  • (8) He wasn't a counter-puncher, nothing to compare with Floyd Patterson .
  • (9) Newly developed instruments: Loop ligation-applicator, Tissue-Puncher (morcellation-forceps), Aqua-Purator and the new CO2-PNEUS-AUTOMATIC (S = security) have enabled us to replace some of the prior operations requiring classic gynecologic laparotomy with surgical-therapeutic pelviscopy: Ovarectomy, adnectomy, myomectomy, cystectomy, resection of the tube-pregnancy.
  • (10) The reported concerns over Khan being weakened by his observation of Ramadan are moot: had the Bolton puncher had the nod two weeks ago that Berto seems to have had since June, he could have fit in an eight-week training camp ahead of 12 September.
  • (11) Mayweather has a couple of ways to win the fight: as a counter-puncher, wait for Pacquiao to make mistakes and make him pay for those mistakes; or just box him, dance around, move and do what he does best.
  • (12) Thus, instead of Liverpool taking a puncher's chance into the final day, they were left with grown men blubbing on national television and a final 10 minutes that resembled Sideshow Bob stepping on all the rakes .
  • (13) If you want to win the game of life, you must be a counter-puncher.
  • (14) And as he showed in his bout with Brazeau, the apparently overmatched Dauphin can be an effective counter-puncher.
  • (15) Being able to stay in a game, with a puncher’s chance of a result, was uppermost in his thoughts.
  • (16) Having left his best alternatives back in the USA, Klinsmann needs an animated Dempsey rather than a breathless one, to give his team a puncher’s chance.
  • (17) The device operates automatically giving analogue signals in the output for the recorder and discrete ones for the tape puncher to process the results obtained by computer.
  • (18) Sadler said his man was a thunderous, murderous puncher.
  • (19) Murray, unlike the vast majority of British players, is essentially a counter-puncher and there have been some suggestions that Petchey, in attempting to get the teenager to shorten the points, may have pushed him a little too hard.
  • (20) All specimens used were punched out with a paper puncher of 3mm diameter.

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