Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This means to give up. The opposite would be to hang onto your fiddle.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant trifling discourse or nonsense. Cowboys liked to use rhyming phrases.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This is a delay. It's something that hangs you up.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant to associate with. A pal was your friend, so you would pal on someone and hang around them.
Not cowboy slang. Overalls are another name for work pants.
Condone, hang with
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This one meant a shirker, a lazy person. They'd rather hang around the coffeepot than do any work.
'Cracklings' are the remains of a fire or cinders.
A horse is a "hay burner".
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant a cowboy's bedroll. It hinted that a cowboy would have fleas.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This is cowboy grammar for "might be able to." "I may can come to the social," said the cowboy.
The condition of being flustered, in a hurry, confused.
A .45 caliber Colt revolver- a handgun.