rodeo
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈroʊdiˌoʊ/
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rodeo
- The local rodeo event featured exciting competitions, including bull riding and steer wrestling.
- a rodeo event
- rodeo roping
- rodeo athletes
I did a local rodeo there and I got thrown off and got hung up.
- I did a local rodeo there and I got thrown off and got hung up.
- I have been at this rodeo for four hours by myself.
- And I mean, you know, when you ride the rodeo circuit, you get in fights usually when you best.
Examples
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Every summer, we attend the annual rodeo, where cowboys showcase their skills in bronco riding and roping cattle.
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Like the harvest season for agriculture, the rodeo served as an occasion for celebration.
Academic text (1994) -
The chance of maybe going into town to a rodeo on the Fourth of July.
Fiction book (1993) -
His parents were rodeo performers.
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I did a local rodeo there and I got thrown off and got hung up.
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There was a performance at the Albuquerque rodeo pavilion.
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Also, there's a rodeo there in July, but you've missed it for this year.
Fiction book (2002) -
But then he went to a rodeo and was seduced by two barrel racers.
Fiction book (1994) -
Lopez drove a truckload to the rodeo arena, where a bronc rider from Bapchule was practicing.
Fiction book (1990) -
At the rodeo, spectators cheered as the cowboys demonstrated their talents in riding and roping.
Idioms
Compounds
How Big
- US
97
5.3
4
2.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rodeo comes from Spanish, where rodeo meant a 'roundup' and comes from the verb rodear, 'to surround' or 'to go around'. Think of cowboys 'rounding up' cattle — those gatherings became the public riding and roping events we now call rodeo.