Cowboying

I've been using the term cowboying lately on the program and many of you wondered why. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It's not "cowboying" but rather simple physics (and respect for killing humanely) that was behind putting shoulder butt stocks on game rifles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

O'BRIEN: Well, Blake's not going to do "cowboying" for too long. ❋ Unknown (2005)

From jokes about his public speaking skills to his way of "cowboying" issues, Bush endeared himself to some Americans as the meat-and-potatoes Commander-in-Chief, but more embraced Bush as the politician they love to hate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"One of our biggest gains was through standardization and the elimination of renegade buying or 'cowboying'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Danish sailor fresh from cowboying in the Argentine and with a penchant for native customs and ceremonials. ❋ Unknown (2010)

George Bush went cowboying into both countries without a clue as to how these wars would benefit the United States. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet, I believe that "cowboying up" to being wrong is actually a sign of strength that most people respect and admire, particularly against the current political backdrop of denial, ignoring, victimization, deflection, and equivocation, which are among the worst kinds of cowardice. ❋ Dr. Jim Taylor (2011)

"Sure, money people getting involved has pushed up the cost of everything needed for cowboying — hats, boots, horses," says Buster Welch, an 82-year-old Texan widely regarded as the greatest cutter ever. ❋ Kevin Helliker (2010)

It's hard and it's rewarding in all the same ways writing is, in that it's a problem-solving activity and it's all about cowboying up and finishing things that sometimes seem much bigger than you. ❋ Truepenny (2008)

Smith, whose photographs of the early days of cowboying on the Texas range leave a wonderful record of a vanished way of life; my poem about Erwin Smith was actually pretty good. ❋ Larry McMurtry (2009)

All up and down the line, the Grumley boys were cowboying up. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2009)

ROBERT BLAKE, ACTOR: But before that, I'm going to go out and do a little cowboying. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sources cite that Ouellet was the person feeding Chelios piecemeal of every NHLPA email, phone call and meeting information, as Chelios was cowboying his way to clean house. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even before he was President, Teddy Roosevelt in 1883 played cowboy at his ranch in South Dakota because William B. Cody had already made cowboying look heroic in "Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Speaking of wild, my detractors have claimed that my “public cowboying” — writing openly about carrying weapons, photographing Hezbollah facilities and stealing flags from Hezbollah strongholds — has endangered all reporters in Lebanon. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[The men] did cowboying for a living when [gold fever] and color in [the river] ran flat. ❋ Jon64Bailey (2009)

this [administration] [needs] to [stop] cowboying around ❋ Herbor (2006)

"That cowboy sure did [leave] [a mess] [behind] didn't he?" ❋ Anonymous A.D. (2007)

“Cowboy” “C o w b o y” ❋ Cowboy_ (2021)

[It'd] [be cool] if I was a cowboy. ❋ Border Brother (2003)

LordZebra861 Is [not a cowboy] ❋ LordzebraIsNotACowboy (2019)

1) I love watching cowbois make out... [yee haw]! 2) We cowbois sure know how to [slap leather]. 3) OMG, what is he wearing? Sure, the hat, tight jeans, and boots, are kinda sexy, [but why's] he suddenly going all cowboi on us? I liked him better when he was just a twink. ❋ Mgeyer2006 (2006)

John Wayne, [Tex Ritter], Roy Rogers, Gene [Autry] were some of the most famous cowboys. "I should've been a Cowboy I should'be learned to [rope and ride] Wearing my six-shooter riding by pony on a cattle drive Stealing the young girl's hearts Just like Gene and Roy Singing those campfire songs I should've been a cowboy" ❋ Swarsfanatic (2005)

i’m [a failure] *[insert] cowboi [emoji]* ❋ Cowboii (2019)

After calling [Ted's] All in, [Hanzo] flips over his [cowboys] and they hold up against Ted's Ducks. ❋ CooCooCoo (2006)