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modem cowboy/cowgirl noun. A person who lives and works out of a home located in the country.

Example Citation:
"The Rockies are especially fertile ground for a proliferation of workers who, like Tipple, are variously known as the telecommuters, the modem cowboys or, as Philip Burgess, president of the Denver think-tank Center for the New West, puts it, the 'lone eagles.'"
—Jordan Bonfante Denver, "Sky's the Limit," Time, September 6, 1993

Related Words:
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Subject Categories:
Business - General
Computers - Internet
Sociology - People

Posted on October 30, 2000 at 9:03 AM


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