gaucho

IPA: gˈaʊtʃoʊ

A cowboy of the South American pampas.
(finance, historical) A proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.

Examples of "gaucho" in Sentences

A gaucho is a cowboy - its the mascot for UC Santa Barbara.
But when Andrés came back the next day, the gaucho was gone, sold.
Andrés had been passing by a pawnshop in Manhattan and had spotted a small wood carving of a gaucho with a guitar in the window.
His concerts were a mix of philosophy and folklore, spoken-word poems and music reflecting his roots in the gaucho culture of rural Argentina.
Gratefully, Vicente Piazzolla, an amateur wood carver, made a small carving of an Argentine gaucho with a guitar, which Astor delivered to Charley.
"gaucho" has had a number of disagreements with coach Rossi and his restless spirit and quarrel with captain Rocchi could easily affect the dressing room atmosphere.
The "gaucho" approach to meals suits me well: every few moments there was another skewer of luscious beef, lamb, ribs, or whatever coming by to be loaded on my plate.
As luck would have it, Dorothy, Uncle Henry, the farmhands, and the men in gaucho costumes seek shelter in a farmhouse from a too-convenient twister, which blows them over a cliff (not over a rainbow, natch).
It is on account of this tricky instinct of the rhea that the gauchos say, "El avestruz es el mas _gaucho_ de los animales," which means that the ostrich, in its resourcefulness and the tricks it practises to save itself when hard pressed, is as clever as the gaucho knows himself to be.