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rodeo†
< Am.E < Sp. "round up"
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an exhibition of skills in various activities associated with ranching, such as riding, roping, and bull-dogging, also offering chuckwagon races, a grandstand show, etc.
See: stampede ((n.))(def. 2)
Quotations
1922
And with them they brought a quartet of rampageous young buckaroos who promptly turned our sedate homestead into a rodeo.
1962
Riding and roping competitions had been held at various territorial expositions throughout the West but it wasn't until 1912 that rodeo competition became a specialized commercial venture.