by Juxtet August 4, 2006
Phrase used to describe to action of taking a deep breath, forgetting about the pain and fear, digging down deep, and carrying on to the end.
Dad: Son, are you injured or are you hurt?
Son: What's the difference?
Dad: If you are injured, you sit your ass on the sidelines and watch your team play the rest of the game. If you are hurt, you cowboy the fuck up, swallow your pain, put your helmet back on, and get back into the fight.
Son: I'm just hurt a little, dad.
Dad: That's my boy.
Son: What's the difference?
Dad: If you are injured, you sit your ass on the sidelines and watch your team play the rest of the game. If you are hurt, you cowboy the fuck up, swallow your pain, put your helmet back on, and get back into the fight.
Son: I'm just hurt a little, dad.
Dad: That's my boy.
by dammit janet October 21, 2004
To marshall your physical and mental resources and continue toward your goal. Cowboys of old were known for their stalwartness.
by Tasha December 25, 2004
1. To grow a tough skin quickly or suck it up.
2. Punchline to a brilliant lyric in Deathboy's "The 80s are Dead"
3. Credited as 'Astrid's bit.
2. Punchline to a brilliant lyric in Deathboy's "The 80s are Dead"
3. Credited as 'Astrid's bit.
by titled November 6, 2003
When a cowboy let's his horse ride him.
by Sew Donym February 21, 2020
( an insult used between men only: to metaphorically 'grow an extra pair of balls' and take ones responsibilities like a grown man
Incompetent teen son: dad I got my girlfriend pregnant. What do I do?
Father: cowboy up and be a dad. And btw, I am busy ( slams door in son's face)
Father: cowboy up and be a dad. And btw, I am busy ( slams door in son's face)
by Sexydimma April 24, 2021