| 单词 | drugstore cowboy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrugstore cowboy drugstore cowboy n. a man who loiters on street corners or in or near drugstores; (also) a novice cowboy; a man who is not a cowboy but who dresses like one. ΚΠ 1922 San Antonio (Texas) Evening News 2 Nov. 23/4 The ‘drug-store cowboy’ is the latest classification given local ‘faddish’ young men. 1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 7/2 Drug store cowboy, fellow who spends nothing but time. 1935 C. W. T. Craig Paraguayan Interlude xxi. 247 I have seen men carry guns this way; they were generally new-comers and quickly became objects of derision. ‘Drug-store cowboys’, they are called. 1957 P. Frank Seven Days to Never iii. 102 She married..a marijuana-smoking drugstore cowboy. 1995 High Country News 18 Sept. 16/3 We can spot a drugstore cowboy or a pretend Indian maiden a mile away. 2007 Rec.-Argus (Greenville, Pa.) 28 Mar. (Television/Comics section) 15 Westerns were particularly popular.., attracting cowboys seeking work in the [Hollywood] movie industry... I have been told there was a drugstore on or near the corner where real and wannabe cowboys would hang out, providing the name ‘drugstore cowboys’. < as lemmas |
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