Wrangler

Quick meaning: Wrangler is a noun meaning Someone who wrangles or corrals.

Meaning

Someone who wrangles or corrals.

More Meanings

1. A brawler or disputant.
2. (US) A cowboy who takes care of saddle horses.
3. (US) A cowboy who takes care of tourists.
4. An animal handler or trainer.
5. (UK, education, Cambridge University) A student who has completed the third year of the mathematical tripos with first-class honours.
6. (US, education, New England, derogatory) A special education teacher.
7. (Texas) A groom.

Example Sentences

The Seas and Windes (old Wranglers) tooke a Truce, / And did him ſeruice; he touch'd the Ports desir'd,

And all over Hollywood, suits are licking their chops at the prospect of more malleable actors. “She’s not going to talk back,” one top talent wrangler told me dryly.

Even as I stretched my arms and shivered a little, the two wranglers threw down their tin plates with a clatter, mounted horses and rode away in the direction of the thousand acres or so known as the pasture.

During all this excursion, she condescended to say civil things to him: she quoted Italian and French poetry to the poor bewildered lad, and persisted that he was a fine scholar, and was perfectly sure he would gain a gold medal, and be a Senior Wrangler.

Word Forms

• wranglers

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