What is Cowboy?
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A cowboy is the ideal American figure because he comes packing with two Colt .45 Revolvers, and a double barrel shotgun, plus a 1HP...Horse.
It'd be cool if I was a cowboy.
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A cute farmer boy who knows how to treat a lady!
Save a horse, ride a cowboy
3.
first of all to clear things up, cowboys aren't gay. brokeback mountain was a movie about sheep herders, not cowboys. if anything most cowboys are gay bashers...and most of them are sheep herder bashers to
urban person: hey look at that broke back cowboy
cowboy: uneducated sombitch!!
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4.
The famous image of Americans. The person who is poeti, a fighter, and can survive on his own. I have been called a cowboy before, by those without these skills
John Wayne could stare down an army.
Of course, he was a cowboy
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A descriptive word of Texan origin which can be used interchangably as a noun, a verb, an imperative, or an adjective.
Noun: "Are you a real cowboy?" (self explanatory)
Verb: "Ol' Jimmy ain't much to look at, but he sure can cowboy!" (i.e., possesses the skills necessary to do the work of a cowboy)
Imperative: "Cowboy up!" (i.e., quit whining & get tough)
Adjective: "That's real cowboy of you!" (i.e., decent or nice. Sometimes used sarcastically to someone who let you down)
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6.
UK slang
A tradesperson, normally a builder, plumber, roofer etc who performs shoddy work at an inflated price.
I paid some cowboy to fix the leak, he charged me 300 quid and I've still got 6 inches of water in my kitchen.
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Someone who is overstepping their boundaries or taking things too far. A synonym or
"...so there we were with a couple of Canadian lumberjacks and a one-eyed, one-armed Norwegian quadriplegic. So I turned to Umberto and Crazy Pete and said, ´How'd we end up in this Turkish prison anyway. WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?´ And then, out of nowhere, this guy with a nightstick..."
"Whoa, whoa, settle down. Easy, cowboy."
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