Usually means: Embrace resilience, confront challenges bravely.
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  1. cowboy up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. cowboy up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cowboy up: Wiktionary
  4. Cowboy Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Cowboy Up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cowboy up)

▸ verb:  To deal with hardship with toughness and without complaining; man up.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic, LGBTQ) To put on a more heterosexual manner, in order to fit in.

Similar:
cowboy, cowgirl, bullock, dumbcow, cowhide, have a cow, ranch, override, bucket, rear up, more...

Opposite:
give up, surrender, quit, back down

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Similar:
cowboy, cowgirl, bullock, dumbcow, cowhide, have a cow, ranch, override, bucket, rear up, more...

Opposite:
give up, surrender, quit, back down



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