(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. 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
by mccay April 19, 2006
Get the cowboymug. When your having sex from the rear position with your girlfrind, say her sisters name just before you finish. Then see how long you can hang on.
by Moherator March 27, 2008
Get the cowboymug. by herbor February 14, 2006
Get the cowboyingmug. "...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."
"Whoa, whoa, settle down. Easy, cowboy."
by Nick D December 19, 2003
Get the cowboymug. The act of a System Administrator or other IT administrator to implement any corporate-wide or district-wide change to a system without testing or appropriate forethought of downstream effects.
Wile E Koyochie - I pressed the button for the system change.
IT Friend - Did you test the change first?
Wile E Koyochie - No.
IT Friend - You're such an IT Cowboy!
IT Friend - Did you test the change first?
Wile E Koyochie - No.
IT Friend - You're such an IT Cowboy!
by Ketch005 August 21, 2020
Get the IT Cowboymug. A collection of losers all bundeled together into a football team. A football team whose members were picked up from the local prison. Proof that the President of the United States should never come from Texas.
A good year is when the Cowboys don't make it to the playoffs or are knocked out during the playoffs.
by jesster79 March 4, 2005
Get the Cowboysmug.