Definitions
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- noun A person living in the city that dresses in Western-style clothes.
- proper noun
Pop-styled country music which became popular during the early 1980s, following the release of the 1980 movie "Urban Cowboy."
Etymologies
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Examples
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Raising Arizona falls within that sub-genre, the Sun Belt-located "southwestern", which also accommodates films like Junior Bonner, Urban Cowboy and Charley Varrick.
With True Grit, the Coen brothers have given the western back its teeth 2011
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Fortunately just then, Urban Cowboy came along and Debra Winger took the role.
HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010
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"I started off my career in what Entertainment Weekly called the worst show of 2003," laughs the 30 year old from Jonesboro, Arkansas about his debut in the musical version of Urban Cowboy.
Michael Giltz: Theater: West Side Story's Matt Cavenaugh Breaks Out 2009
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It's like you just woke up from a drunken stupor only to realize this is Gilley's straight out of 1980's Urban Cowboy.
Michael Bialas: Miranda Lambert Embraces Role of Denver's Honky-Tonk Woman 2009
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Former owner of Gilley's dies at 81 | Pasadena/Baytown news | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: Sherwood Cryer, whose honky-tonk Gilley's created a lasting image of the Houston area as a blue-collar, redneck boomtown after it was immortalized in the movie Urban Cowboy, has died.
Sherwood Cryer, R. I. P. Bill Crider 2009
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While I will agree the city is less Urban Cowboy than it used to be, it remains our country's most challenging urban environment to get by in for all but the wealthy.
Steven Mesler: Imagining a Post-Bernie Madoff New York City 2009
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Owen Roberts, Guelph's Urban Cowboy has been a communications fixture at the University of Guelph since my frosh days plus a regular columnist for the Guelph Mercury for a good long stretch.
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2008
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Her last big movie was Shadowlands in 1993, and she was the female star of the 80s with Urban Cowboy, Terms of Endearment, An Officer and a Gentleman and Black Widow.
Debra Winger Surfaces with New Book Melissa Silverstein 2008
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Owen Roberts, Guelph's Urban Cowboy has been a communications fixture at the University of Guelph since my frosh days plus a regular columnist for the Guelph Mercury for a good long stretch.
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2008
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Maybe he had gone to a Hollywood memorabilia auction and bought Scott Glenn's hat from Urban Cowboy and, rather than carry it in a bag, just decided to wear it.
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