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Urban Cowboy

Urban Cowboy noun: a person living in the city who dresses in clothes that suggest a film of the western genre.

Noun

Urban Cowboy (plural Urban Cowboys)

  1. A person living in the city who dresses in clothes that suggest a film of the western genre.
    Synonyms:
    transwestite
  2. (uncountable) Pop-styled country music which became popular during the early 1980s, following the release of the movie Urban Cowboy (1980).

Synonyms of Urban Cowboy

Forms of Urban Cowboy

pluralUrban Cowboys
alternative formurban cowboy

Origin of Urban Cowboy

From Urban Cowboy, a popular 1980 movie starring John Travolta and Debra Winger and featuring several country music performances.

Questions about Urban Cowboy

What does Urban Cowboy mean?
Urban Cowboy means a person living in the city who dresses in clothes that suggest a film of the western genre.
What part of speech is Urban Cowboy?
Urban Cowboy is a noun.
What is the plural of Urban Cowboy?
The plural of Urban Cowboy is Urban Cowboys.

Words near Urban Cowboy in the dictionary

  1. urban boarding
  2. urban boulevard
  3. urban boulevards
  4. urban canyon
  5. urban contemporary
  6. Urban Cowboy
  7. Urban Cowboys
  8. urban crawl
  9. urban death
  10. urban decay
  11. urban district

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Urban Cowboy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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