Meanings
nouncowpooling (uncountable)
- uncountableThe practice of two or more parties jointly purchasing all or part of a butchered cow and dividing the meat between them.
Cowpooling, however, is far more involved than simply grabbing a sirloin from the grocery freezer.
2008 May 21, Wency Leung, “You take the ribs, I'll take the rump”, in The Globe and Mail
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cowpool
Origin
From cow + pooling, by analogy with carpooling.
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APA
cowpooling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cowpooling
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“cowpooling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cowpooling. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cowpooling,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cowpooling.
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