buckaroo
- n local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California)
- Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western .
- Undoubtedly, he could do as well with what is under them, but his aim in this lyric portrait series is to convey the essence of buckaroo: the shoulder slouch, the pelvic hitch, the .
- In 1968 he did, and started as a buckaroo on a ranch in Oregon.