The part of a sentence "cowboy about" is technically grammatically correct, but it is not commonly used in written English.
It is a colloquial expression that is more commonly used in spoken language. You can use "cowboy about" to mean someone is acting like a cowboy, or behaving recklessly or carelessly. Example: "He was just cowboy about and didn't think about the consequences of his actions."
Her riding partner, an older man with a weakness for exaggeration, told Mr. Headley, a fellow cowboy, about the cute girl from Hollywood.
At the moment he was in the driveway, leaning up against his cream-colored 1960 Ford Thunderbird, talking to his head carpenter, a Texan named Cowboy, about making sure some cedar planks were being stained the proper shade of green.
So far, the titles for new songs run like this: "Daddy Is White," about race in America today; "Avatar," about aging and spirituality; "Profanity," about why profanity is good; "Back Alley View," basically a summary of our last tour; "Pale Cowboy," about a songwriter I don't know very well.
I recently caught up with the Iron Cowboy about how his consistent acupuncture regimen helped him achieve an unfathomably impressive feat.
"Cowboy Bebop" (about bounty hunters in space) and InuYasha (about a schoolgirl transported into the feudal past) are recycled anime hits from Japan.
He chose Elvis's "Lonesome Cowboy". Talk about absurd.
When Strait came to town to record, songwriters would lie in wait outside the studio, carrying demo tapes with the most stereotypically George Strait songs they had: songs about cowboys, songs about Texas, songs about the Alamo.
"I catch a lot of grief from all the cowboys about that.
How: He's described as the 'Cowboy Capitalist', presumably to differentiate him from the hordes of Marxist cowboys about whom we hear so much.
Wade Phillips, the Chargers' defensive coordinator who was a head coach of four N.F.L. teams, interviewed yesterday with the Cowboys about replacing the retired head coach Bill Parcells.
By Harold Ross The New Yorker, December 5 , 1931 P. 13Helen Hayes played "Pollyanna" to an audience of cowboys about 14 years ago; the cowboys had been shooting around all day, but reacted tearfully to Miss Hayes.
