Definition of cowboy up
cowboy up 
verb
- to face a daunting task, as a brave cowboy would.
Citation from "Charged", Reaper (TV, 2007), Season 1 Episode 2 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: brave.
Last edited on Apr 29 2011. Submitted by Mary K. from Lockport, IL, USA on Feb 25 2003.
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Other terms relating to 'brave': | |
| Definitions include: brave. | |
| Definitions include: testicles. | |
| Definitions include: full of courage. | |
| Definitions include: metaphor: having a "backbone" endows one with courage, will. | |
| Definitions include: also balls to the wall. | |
| Definitions include: cigarette. | |
| Definitions include: exclamation of disappointment. | |
| Definitions include: socially dangerous or daring; intellectually provocative; tending to induce unease or stress in viewers. | |
| Definitions include: metaphorical testicles that people with courage or gall have. | |
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Other terms relating to 'cowboy': | |
| Definitions include: an employee who frequently operates in an unauthorized fashion. | |
| Definitions include: a very strong cigarette. | |
Other terms relating to 'up': | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: to make something like ass. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
| Definitions include: a situation that could end in multiple outcomes, each of which is equally likely. | |
| Definitions include: to move away from. | |
| Definitions include: to call someone to halt, particularly when the intention is to rob. | |
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