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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of cowboy.

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Examples

  • If I recall the inspiration for the "Hank the Cowdog" series was a dog owned by a local rancher out here named Mark Mayo, who cowboyed with John Erickson in Beaver County back when Erickson first started writing.

    My Dog's Name Is... 2008

  • ` ` For being undermanned, we were minus six players tonight, I thought we really cowboyed up and really gutted it out tonight and played a great game, '' Columbus coach Ken Hitchcock said.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • He's such a sweetheart, and helped transform the Red Sox from a group of overpaid athletes employed by the same organization to a team of cowboyed-up baseball players mugging for the fans.

    September 5th, 2007 2007

  • He was all cowboyed up—the Tony Lamas boots muddy but solid, a blue, denim shirt, a red handkerchief around his neck, for it gets hot in Idaho in August, and a straw Stetson to keep the sun off his face.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He was all cowboyed up, because now he lived in the West, had essentially given up his eastern identity, and by now everybody was used to seeing him in a cowboy hat and open-necked red shirt with a red bandana about his neck.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He was all cowboyed up—the Tony Lamas boots muddy but solid, a blue, denim shirt, a red handkerchief around his neck, for it gets hot in Idaho in August, and a straw Stetson to keep the sun off his face.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He was all cowboyed up, because now he lived in the West, had essentially given up his eastern identity, and by now everybody was used to seeing him in a cowboy hat and open-necked red shirt with a red bandana about his neck.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He was all cowboyed up, because now he lived in the West, had essentially given up his eastern identity, and by now everybody was used to seeing him in a cowboy hat and open-necked red shirt with a red bandana about his neck.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He was all cowboyed up—the Tony Lamas boots muddy but solid, a blue, denim shirt, a red handkerchief around his neck, for it gets hot in Idaho in August, and a straw Stetson to keep the sun off his face.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • I missed him in another small role in Robert DeNiro's CIA drama THE GOOD SHEPHERD 2006 but it's s nice to see he's cowboyed up a bit.

    And the McGraw-Conrad Award... Arbogast 2008

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