noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cowboy/gangster etc film
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John Wayne was best-known for his roles in cowboy films.
cowboy hat
straw/cowboy/bowler etc hat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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It's a traditional western focused on the adventures of black cowboys .
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He wore a white ten-gallon hat and black cowboy boots decorated with swastikas and stars.
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Ranchers turned out in force to hear him; the crowd was a bobbing sea of black and white cowboy hats.
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He wore a black cowboy hat, black shirt, fatigue pants, combat boots.
■ NOUN
hat
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He was dressed in checked golfing trousers, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat .
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The contractor was a tall man with a beer belly and a cowboy hat .
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Ranchers turned out in force to hear him; the crowd was a bobbing sea of black and white cowboy hats .
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A man whose weathered face is all but hidden beneath a wide-brimmed cowboy hat .
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The press photographs show the artist in cowboy hat with a shotgun, surrounded by skulls and horns.
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He wore a black cowboy hat , black shirt, fatigue pants, combat boots.
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At a cattle auction, the rough men under the cowboy hats shrug their shoulders.
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A pair of buffalo horns and a cowboy hat were set above backlit, multi-colored bottles on shelves.
■ VERB
wear
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He wore a black cowboy hat, black shirt, fatigue pants, combat boots.
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One man, wearing a cowboy hat and a loud check jacket, clashed somewhat with the overcoats and pinstripes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He'd been working as a cowboy on a Utah ranch.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A cowboy crooner sings softly on one side of the room.
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A cowboy does his work 100 miles from anybody.
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He took off his wellingtons and put on his cowboy boots.
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I used to take out my gun and play cowboys in the dark.
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In the land of the cowboy you might expect beef to be an unfailingly popular dish.
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The cowboys loved me, ha ha!