Nickname for a cowboy
The crossword clue "Nickname for a cowboy" is answered by TEX, a 3-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
TEX
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TEX answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TEX
Every other clue in this collection answered by TEX, most used first.
- ___-Mex cuisine - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- ___-Mex - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Cowboy nickname - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Singer Ritter - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Animator Avery - used 24 times, most recently in 2022
- Cowboy's nickname - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Cowboy moniker - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Cowboy Ritter - used 12 times, most recently in 2007
- John Ritter's dad - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Western moniker - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Singing cowboy Ritter - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Cowboy singer Ritter - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Cowpoke's nickname - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Ranch handle - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Saxophonist Beneke - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Avery or Ritter - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Bandleader Beneke - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Cowboy's moniker - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- S.E. Hinton novel - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Country singer Ritter - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Okla. neighbor - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Ranch moniker - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Ranch nickname - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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- Tit for ___ - TAT, used 189 times
- Presidential nickname - ABE, used 184 times
- Family nickname - SIS, used 160 times
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