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rodeoer

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ro⋅de⋅o

  [roh-dee-oh, roh-dey-oh] noun, plural -de⋅os, verb, -de⋅oed, -de⋅o⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a public exhibition of cowboy skills, as bronco riding and calf roping.
2. a roundup of cattle.
3. Informal. any contest offering prizes in various events: a bicycle rodeo for kids under twelve.
4. (initial capital letter, italics) a ballet (1942) choreographed by Agnes de Mille, with musical score by Aaron Copland.
–verb (used without object)
5. to participate or compete in a rodeo or rodeos: He's been rodeoing since he was twelve.
Origin:
1825–35; < Sp: cattle ring, deriv. of rodear to go round, itself deriv. of rueda wheel < L rota

Related forms:
ro⋅de⋅o⋅er, noun
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Word Origin & History

rodeo 
1914 as public entertainment show of horse-riding skill, from earlier meaning "cattle round-up" (1834), from Sp., "pen for cattle at a fair or market," lit. "a going round," from rodear "go round, surround," related to rodare "revolve, roll," from L. rotare "go around" (see rotate).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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