"cowboy up" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "cowboys up",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "cowboying up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cowboyed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cowboyed up",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Mary Ann Van Osdell, Hands Pointed Up, page 61",
          "text": "COWBOY UP!! Be a man, son. Walk it off, says the coach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Mel Leslie, A Cowboy's Journey Through My Eyes: A Book of Poems, page 11",
          "text": "“Cowboy up!”, your excuses are gettin thin!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Sam Welch, What's Your Problem, Cowboy?",
          "text": "Now they think we can't cowboy up, but we could show'em a thang or three.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 August 5, “Writers on the Range: To survive we need immigrants working the land”, in The Durango Herald",
          "text": "It's past time to cowboy up and do what's right, even if it means accepting the stigma involved in visibly and vocally standing up for good people like Paco and Lupe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "August 24, 2018, “A Suicide on the Farm”, in CNN",
          "text": "Men in rural America are taught to \"cowboy up\" and not speak of depression.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "To deal with hardship with toughness and without complaining; man up."
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          "man up",
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        "To put on a more heterosexual manner, in order to fit in."
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          "put on",
          "put on"
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          "heterosexual"
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        "(idiomatic, LGBT) To put on a more heterosexual manner, in order to fit in."
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      "form": "cowboys up",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "cowboying up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cowboyed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cowboyed up",
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          "ref": "2004, Mary Ann Van Osdell, Hands Pointed Up, page 61",
          "text": "COWBOY UP!! Be a man, son. Walk it off, says the coach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Mel Leslie, A Cowboy's Journey Through My Eyes: A Book of Poems, page 11",
          "text": "“Cowboy up!”, your excuses are gettin thin!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Sam Welch, What's Your Problem, Cowboy?",
          "text": "Now they think we can't cowboy up, but we could show'em a thang or three.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 August 5, “Writers on the Range: To survive we need immigrants working the land”, in The Durango Herald",
          "text": "It's past time to cowboy up and do what's right, even if it means accepting the stigma involved in visibly and vocally standing up for good people like Paco and Lupe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "August 24, 2018, “A Suicide on the Farm”, in CNN",
          "text": "Men in rural America are taught to \"cowboy up\" and not speak of depression.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To deal with hardship with toughness and without complaining; man up."
      ],
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          "toughness",
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          "man up",
          "man up"
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        "To put on a more heterosexual manner, in order to fit in."
      ],
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          "LGBT"
        ],
        [
          "put on",
          "put on"
        ],
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          "heterosexual",
          "heterosexual"
        ]
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        "(idiomatic, LGBT) To put on a more heterosexual manner, in order to fit in."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ],
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