cowboy up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Please put on your batteries — a Mexican Spanish idiom that means to cowboy up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
You also cowboy up with some fancy duds.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2023
That night at the sushi restaurant, while I thought I was trying to cowboy up, others saw a neighbor in distress and responded.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2017
He espouses "cowboy logic" and his cellphone message tells callers to "cowboy up."
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2015
Hoyt, heartbroken and hungover in a redneck-fabulous bald eagle and American flag T-shirt subtly urging him to "cowboy up," packs Jessica's personal effects in a box labeled "For You, Monster."
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2011
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