Cowpool
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A pond used by cows.
"Dried snot on the marijuana pipe tossed into the cowpool built with government subsidy on a Vermont commune."
- 2 A group that engages in cowpooling.
"Others have created so-called "cowpools" to divvy up an entire animal and dole out cuts of meat."
- 1 To jointly purchase all or part of a butchered cow with one or more additional parties and split the meat.
"Brandee Callahan, 32, has lived in Huntersville for about two years and has ordered from GO Local for a year. She cowpools about every three months and supplements with smaller orders."
Example
More examples"Dried snot on the marijuana pipe tossed into the cowpool built with government subsidy on a Vermont commune."
Etymology
From cow + pool (“small body of water”).
From cow + pool (“to put together”), by analogy with carpool.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.