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rodeo
/ˈɹoʊ.di.oʊ/
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What does rodeo mean?
noun
- A gathering of cattle to be branded.
- A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock.
- An entertainment event associated with the sport.
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verb
- To perform in a rodeo show.
proper noun
- A census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹoʊ.di.oʊ/
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“Just going down for a rodeo in the Panamint.”
Once every year there is a grand "rodeo," when all the cattle are driven down, counted, and marked, and a certain number separated to be fattened in the irrigated fields.
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The Los Angeles "Examiner", the only paper in the city with a pretense to radicalism, turns loose its star-writer--one of those journalist virtuosos who will describe you a Wild West "rodeo" one day, and a society elopement the next, and a G. O. P. convention the next; and always with his picture, one inch square, at the head of his effusion.