Meaning
A reckless, daredevil driver — especially a minibus, coaster, or route-taxi driver who speeds, overtakes wildly, and drives with abandon. 'Cowboy driver' captures the fearless, rule-breaking, seat-of-the-pants way many public-transport drivers handle the road, racing for fares and taking hair-raising chances. The word casts the wild driver as a gun-slinging outlaw of the highway, and it belongs to the whole lively, chaotic, and often alarming world of Jamaican road transport, where the cowboy at the wheel is a familiar and dreaded figure.
Examples
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Di coaster driva a real cowboy.
The coaster driver is a real daredevil.
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Hold on tight, dis cowboy a fly dung di road.
Hold on tight, this reckless driver is flying down the road.
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Cowboy driva cause plenty accident.
Reckless drivers cause plenty of accidents.
Origin
From 'cowboy' (in the sense of a reckless, rule-flouting operator); applied to daredevil public-transport drivers.
How it’s used
A reckless driver, esp. of public transport ('cowboy driver'). See [[coaster]], [[route-taxi]].