单词 | bronco-buster |
释义 | > as lemmasbronco-buster bronco-buster n. colloquial (originally U.S.) a breaker-in of broncos. ΚΠ 1887 Cent. Mag. in Farmer Americanisms (1888) 89/2 An Eastern or English horse-breaker and Western broncho-buster have so little in common with each other. 1888 T. Roosevelt in Cent. Mag. Feb. 507 The flash riders, or horse-breakers, always called ‘bronco busters’. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 8 Oct. 1/3 Those who saw Buffalo Bill's show will remember the riding of the broncho-busters. 1913 R. Brooke Let. in Coll. Poems (1918) p. lxxix A bold, bad, bearded broncho-buster. < as lemmas |
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