| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| buckaroo |
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| SYLLABICATION: | buck·a·roo |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b k  -r  |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also buck·er·oo |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. buck·a·roos or buck·er·oos
Western U.S. See cowboy (sense 1). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Alteration (perhaps influenced by buck1) of Spanish vaquero, from vaca, cow, from Latin vacca.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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