(noun) 1. a man, or sometimes a boy, who tends or herds beef cattle or works on a beef ranch; COWMAN; COWHAND 2. Americanism, Colloquial any man or boy who wears the typical garb like that of a cowboy Sense 1 as in play or fashion 3. American slang a male person regarded as simple, rustic, idealistic, uneducated, crude, unsophisticated, wild, and/or reckless, also, a man who is a reckless car or truck driver 4. Americanism any male character in western pictures or novels who acts or dresses like a cowboys as a gunslinger, sheriff, train robbers, etc. in the old American west 5. American slang something regarded as western in culture as a book or film as “I have fifteen war films and fifty cowboys in my video collection.”
(adj) 1. like, of, or pertaining to cowboys and/or American western culture as a cowboy hat, a cowboy gun, or a cowboy movie 2. American slang shoddy, ad hoc or inferior in workmanship or quality as cowboy coffee or cowboy wiring
(vi) to do the work of cowboys; tend or herd beef cattle
-cowboy up American slang be a man; act as a genuine male; face a difficult challenge or task at hand
(adj) 1. like, of, or pertaining to cowboys and/or American western culture as a cowboy hat, a cowboy gun, or a cowboy movie 2. American slang shoddy, ad hoc or inferior in workmanship or quality as cowboy coffee or cowboy wiring
(vi) to do the work of cowboys; tend or herd beef cattle
-cowboy up American slang be a man; act as a genuine male; face a difficult challenge or task at hand
by Jon64Bailey January 15, 2009
Get the cowboymug. (interjection)
1. it is your turn to play as in chess, checkers or other games
2. it is your right to initiate the first attempt to draw a holstered gun as in a pistol duel (gun-slinging term)
1. it is your turn to play as in chess, checkers or other games
2. it is your right to initiate the first attempt to draw a holstered gun as in a pistol duel (gun-slinging term)
by Jon64Bailey August 01, 2014
Get the your movemug. by Jon64Bailey January 15, 2009
Get the cowboys-and-Indiansmug. noun a man or boy who is effiminate, nerdy or uncool
verb (used with out) to cop out; wimp out; fail to live up to an engagement
verb (used with out) to cop out; wimp out; fail to live up to an engagement
That guy is a total pin for bringing a laptop to the poker table. Only a pin would show up to a cowboy bar wearing wingtips and sporting a Beemer. Don't pin out on me, dude, you promised you would meet this new chick at the dance hall tonite!!
by Jon64Bailey January 07, 2008
Get the pinmug. If that polecat comes on my farm to steal my cow I will have my trusty gun and loyal dog a-waitin' fer him!
by Jon64Bailey December 18, 2014
Get the polecatmug. In 1980's Novato, CA, guys at San Marin High drove "Maros" and guys at Novato High School drove "Cams".
by Jon64Bailey January 15, 2008
Get the Cammug. by Jon64Bailey October 21, 2011
Get the manbushmug.