Some Cowboy words and phrases to make your Cowboy Christmas party complete ...

Ace in the hole: a hideout, a hidden gun
Acorn Calf: a weak runty calf 
Air in Lungs: cussin'
All Hands & the Cook: phrase used when there is danger & every man is needed
All Horns and Rattles: fit of temper
Apple: saddle horn 
Among the willows:  dodging the law 
Arkansas toothpick: a large knife  
Auger:   the big boss  
Axle grease: butter 
Bad medicine: bad news 
Bait: food  
Bake: to overheat a horse 
Baldface Dishes:  china dishes 
Band Wagon:  a peddlers wagon 
Bangtail:  a mustang 
Banjo:  a miners term for a short-handled shovel 
Bar Dog:  a bartender 
Barefoot:  an unshod horse 
Bark:  to scalp 
Barking at a Knot:  trying the impossible 
Base Burner:  a drink of whiskey 
Bay:  a horse of light red color 
Bean Master:  a camp cook 
Bear Sign:  doughnuts 
Bed Ground:  where cattle are held at night 
Bed Him Down:  to kill a man 
Beef Head: Texan
Beef Tea: shallow water where cows have stood 
Belly Cheater:  a cook 
Belly Robber:  a cook 
Belly Through the Brush:  dodge the law 
Belly Wash:  weak coffee 
Bending at the Elbow:  drinking whiskey 
Bible:  cigarette papers 
Big Jump:  death 
Big Pasture:  the penitentiary 
Big sugar:  ranch owner 
Bill Show: Wild West show
Biscuit:  saddle horn 
Biscuit  Roller: a cook 
Biscuit Shooter:  a cook or waitress
Bite the Ground:  to be killed 
Black-Eyed Susan:  a cowboy's six-gun 
Black Snake:  a long whip 
Black Spot:  shade 
Blind as a snubbing post: undiscerning
Black Water:  coffee 
Blue Belly: a Yankee 
Blue Lightnin':  a six-gun 
Blue Whistler: bullet
Boggy Top:  a pie with no top crust 
Boil Over:   a horse that starts bucking 
Bone Orchard:  cemetery 
Boogered Up:  crippled 
Boston Dollar:  a penny 
Brain Tablet:  a cigarette 
Breaking the medicine: overcoming enemy's efforts to harm you.
Broken Wind:  a lung infection in horses 
Brown Gargle:  coffee 
Bucket of Blood:  a tough saloon 
Buffer: traders name for buffalo 
Buffaloed:  confused 
Bug juice:  whiskey 
Bull Nurse:  a cowboy 
Bumblebee Whiskey:  whiskey with a sting 
Burn the Breeze:  ride at full speed 
Burro Milk:  nonsense 
Buscadero: a gunman
Burn the Breeze: ride full speed
Caboodle:   the whole thing 
Cahoots:  partnership 
Calf slobbers:  meringue 
California Collar:  a hangman's noose 
California Prayer Book:  a deck of cards 
Callin':  courtin' 
Can Openers:  spurs 
Cash in:  to die 
Catalog Woman:  mail order bride 
Catgut:  a rope 
Cat Wagon:  wagon carrying women of less than honorable intentions 
Chew Gravel:  thrown from a horse 
Choke Strap:  a necktie 
Chuck:  food 
Chuck Wagon Chicken:  bacon 
Clean his Plow:   beat up in a fight 
Cold Meat Wagon:  a hearse 
Cookie:  camp cook 
Corral Dust:  Lies and tall tales 
Cottonwood Blossom:  a man lynched from the limb of a tree 
Cowboy Cocktail: straight whiskey 
Cow Salve:  BUTTER 
Crawl his Hump:  to start a fight 
Crumb Castle:  chuck wagon 
Crumb Incubator:  a cowboy's bed 
Curry the Kinks Out:  break a horse 
Cut a Rusty:  to go a courtin' 
Cut his Suspenders:  a departed cowboy 
Desert Canary:  a burro 
Dice House:  bunkhouse 
Didn't Have a Tail Feather Left:  broke 
Diggers:  spurs 
Ditty:  a which I ma call it 
Dive:  bunkhouse 
Dough-Belly:  cook 
Doughgods:  biscuits 
Down to the Blanket:  almost broke
Dragging her rope: woman trying to catch a husband
Dream Book:  cigarette papers
Dream Sack: sleeping bag 
Dusted:  thrown from a horse 
Eatin' Irons:  knives,forks,spoons 
Equalizer:  a pistol 
Excuse me  ma'am:  a bump in the road 
Fandango:  a dance 
Fan Tail: wild horse
Feather-headed: light-headed
Fiddle: a horses head 
Fill a Blanket:  roll a cigarette 
Flannelmouth: a talkative person 
Flea Trap:  bedroll 
Fluff-Duff: anything fancy
Gambler's Ghost:  a white mule 
Gelding Smacker:  a saddle 
Getting  Long in the Tooth:  getting old 
Grubworm:  cook 
Hair in the Butter:  a delicate situation 
Hot Rock:  a biscuit 
Lead Plumb:  a bullet 
Lincoln Skins:  greenbacks 
Lizzy: a saddle horn 
Lookin'at the mule's tail:  plowing
Lookin' for a dog to kick: expression of disgust
Look to See:  investigate 
Lynching Bee:  a hanging 
Mail-Order Cowboy:  a tenderfoot 
Mexican Strawberries:  dried beans 
Monkey Ward Cowboy:  a tenderfoot 
Mule's Breakfast:  a straw bed 
Neck Oil:  Whiskey 
Paintin' his Nose:  getting drunk 
Pair of Overalls:  two drinks of whiskey 
Play a Lone Hand:  do something alone 
Pop Skull:  whiskey 
Porch Percher:  a town loafer 
Pot Rustler:  cook 
Prairie Dew:  whiskey 
Prairie Tenor:  coyote 
Puddin' Foot:  an awkward horse 
Put on the Nose Bag:  to eat 
Round Browns:  cow chips 
Saddle Bum:  a drifter
Sachet Kitten: skunk
Sage Hen:  a woman 
Savvy:  knowledge or understanding 
Singin' to Em':  standing night guard 
Smoke Wagon:  a six-gun 
Snuffy:  a wild or spirited horse 
Squeezing the Biscuit: holding the saddle horn 
Stretching the  Blanket:  telling a tall tale 
Stringing a Whizzer: telling a tall tale 
Swamp Seed:  rice 
Talking Iron:  a six-shooter 
Tear Squeezer:  a sad story 
Techy as a Teased Snake:  grumpy 
Texas Cakewalk:  a hanging 
To Much Mustard: a braggart 
Uncorkin' a Bronc:  breaking a horse 
Unshucked:   draw a gun
Valley Tan: Morman whiskey 
War Bonnet:  a hat 
Wasp Nest:  light bread 
Whistle Berries:  beans