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rodeo

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɹəʊ.di.əʊ//
  • United States//ˈɹoʊ.di.oʊ//
  • United States//ɹoʊˈdeɪ.oʊ//

A gathering of cattle to be branded.

noun

  1. 1

    A gathering of cattle to be branded.

  2. 2

    A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock.

  3. 3

    An entertainment event associated with the sport.

Etymology

From Spanish rodeo, from rodear (“to surround”), which refers to a cattle roundup.

verb

  1. 1

    To perform in a rodeo show.

Forms

plural
rodeos
past tense
rodeoed
past participle
rodeoed
present participle
rodeoing
third person singular
rodeos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).