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Definition of Rodeo
1. Noun. An exhibition of cowboy skills.
2. Noun. An enclosure for cattle that have been rounded up.
Definition of Rodeo
1. n. A round-up. See Round-up.
Definition of Rodeo
1. Noun. (sports) A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock. ¹
2. Noun. An entertainment event associated with the sport. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rodeo
1. to participate in a rodeo (an exhibition of cowboy skills) [v RODEOED, RODEOING, RODEOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rodeo
Literary usage of Rodeo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to the Pacific Northwest by Don Young, Marjorie Young (1999)
"The following weekend, the annual Alder Creek Pioneer Picnic & rodeo is held in
Cleveland. In mid-June, there's a PRCA rodeo, « 509/684-4849, ..."
2. California: for Health, Pleasure, and Residence: For Health, Pleasure, and by Charles Nordhoff (1873)
"A rodeo.—PECULIAR CUSTOMS OF THE SPANISH CALIFORNIANS. ... one of the great cattle
ranchos of California, where I had been promised a rodeo. ..."
3. General Statutes of the State of California: Continued in Force and Not by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch, John H. McKune (1873)
"2. section is in force there us follows:] When owner of farm may have more than
one rodeo. rodeo, before removal. The original 1575. SEC. 10. ..."
4. Sixty Years in California: A History of Events and Life in California by William Heath Davis (1889)
"Whenever a rodeo was to be held, the neighbors of the ranchero were given notice
and attended at the time and place designated. ..."
5. Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington (1895)
"A rodeo AT LOS OJOS THE sun beat down on the dry grass, and the punchers were
squatting about in groups in front of the straggling log and adobe buildings ..."
6. Modern Argentina, the El Dorado of To-day: With Notes on Uruguay and Chile by William Henry Koebel (1907)
"The " rodeo "—Some exciting duties—Counting cattle and " parting "—The " brete
... A " rodeo," as it is termed, is a sight worth seeing when at its height, ..."
7. The General Laws of the State of California: From 1850 to 1864, Inclusive by California (1872)
"No owner of a stock-farm shall be required to give a rodeo from the Ki-empt during
first day of November to the first day of March, in each year, ..."
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