Cowgirl

//ˈkaʊˌɡɝl// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A woman who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
  2. 2
    a woman cowboy wordnet
  3. 3
    A woman who identifies with cowboy culture, including clothing such as the cowboy hat.
  4. 4
    a female performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging wordnet
  5. 5
    A playing card of queen rank. slang
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  1. 6
    A sex position where the receptive partner is on top; the cowgirl position.
  2. 7
    The receptive partner in the cowgirl position.
Verb
  1. 1
    To work as a cowgirl, herding cattle. intransitive, rare

    "She also cowgirled and hired out to do ranch and timber work."

  2. 2
    To mount someone and have sexual intercourse in the cowgirl position. rare, transitive

    "Once recovered I cowgirled him to a torturously slow climax, having him begging for release as I took him to the edge […]"

Example

More examples

"This year, my sister is dressing up as a cowgirl."

Etymology

From cow + girl.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.