"drugstore cowboy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-drugstore cowboy.ogg [Australia] Forms: drugstore cowboys [plural]
Etymology: Sense 2 from soda fountains and ice cream counters as once popular meeting spots in drugstores. Head templates: {{en-noun}} drugstore cowboy (plural drugstore cowboys)
  1. (dated) Someone who dresses and acts like a cowboy but has none of the skills. Tags: dated Synonyms: dude
    Sense id: en-drugstore_cowboy-en-noun-Zjs4PbWL
  2. A young man who loafs around town, especially a lady's man who hangs out in public places in an attempt to pick up girls. Categories (topical): Male people
    Sense id: en-drugstore_cowboy-en-noun-VuNkO4sY Disambiguation of Male people: 11 89 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: plastic shaman, milk-bar cowboy

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          "ref": "[1989 May 29, “Who's a ‘Drugstore Cowboy’?”, in Newsweek, page 29",
          "text": "The Soviet Union, he [Marlin Fitzwater] insisted, was engaged “in a very strange pattern of public-relations gambits”; he compared Mikhail Gorbachev to a “drugstore cowboy,” an old-fashioned term for a pretentious impostor.]",
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