vaquero

/baˈkeɾo/, [baˈke.ɾo]

cowboy


Adjective vaquero (feminine vaquera, masculine plural vaqueros, feminine plural vaqueras)

  1. cowboy

Noun vaquero m (plural vaqueros)

  1. cowboy
  2. (in the plural) jeans
    vestidos con vaqueros
    dressed in jeans
  3. a kind of bird:
  4. squirrel cuckoo (Piaya cayana)
  5. laughing falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans)
  6. lesser ground cuckoo (Morococcyx erythropygus)

Source: Wiktionary available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License


Examples
  • ¿Alguna vez te has puesto un sombrero de vaquero?

    Have you ever put on a cowboy's hat?

  • Yo siempre quise hacerme vaquero, perseguir a los malos, pegar tiros... Pero cuando crecí me di cuenta de que, por desgracia, esa profesión se ha extinguido.

    I always wanted to be a cowboy, pursuing the bad, shooting... But when I grew up I noticed that unfortunately that profession has vanished.


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