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buckaroo¹

  • /ˌbʌkəˈɹuː/ UK
  • /ˌbʌkəˈɹu/ US

Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

Modified from Spanish vaquero (“cowboy”), with the spelling influenced by buck (“(noun) male antelope, deer, etc.; adventurous or high-spirited young man; (verb) of a horse, etc.: to leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward”). Doublet of vaquero.

cognates

* Early Medieval Latin vaccārius (“cowherd”)

* French vacher

* Late Latin baccalārius (“landless serf; cowherd (?)”) (Merovingian)

noun buckaroos · buckayro · buckeroo

  1. US, also, attributive A cowboy; specifically, a working cowboy who generally does not participate in rodeos. No thanks, cowboy. If I was to let every rodeo hand I pulled a bull off of buy me liquor, I'd have been an alcoholic long ago. Pullin' bulls off of you buckaroos is just my job. So save your money for your next entry fee, cowboy.
  2. US, broadly One who adopts a distinctive style of cowboy attire and heritage. Many cowboy poets have a buckaroo look and feel about them.
  3. US, broadly A style of cowboy boot with a high heel tapered at the back.
  4. US, Western, figuratively A headstrong, reckless person; a hothead. Don’t run in looking for a fight like some kind of buckaroo.

buckaroo²

  • /ˌbʌkəˈɹuː/ UK
  • /ˌbʌkəˈɹu/ US

Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

Probably a fanciful elaboration of buck, influenced by buckaroo (etymology 1).

noun buckaroos

  1. US, slang Synonym of buck (“a dollar”). That’ll be twenty buckaroos, buddy.

    Similar: buckaroonie, smackeroo, buck

Buckaroo³

proper noun

  1. A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

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@misc{buckaroo_2026,
  title = {buckaroo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/buckaroo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}