buck-jumpn.
A leap like that of a buck, esp. a jump from the ground made by an untamed or vicious horse, with the feet drawn together and the back arched, to unseat the rider. (Of American or Australian origin.)
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1861 Harper's Mag. June 8/1 The Captain..compels his animal to slide or make ‘buck jumps’ over the worst places.
1878 H. Smart Play or Pay (ed. 3) i. 18 Harlequin [a horse]..indulged in a couple of buck jumps.
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ˈbuck-jump v. = buck v.3
buck-jumper n.
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1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. vii. 78 An expert ‘buck-jumper’ usually begins when his rider is in some degree off his guard.
1882 Detroit Free Press 2 Dec. 1/6 That pony is a mustang and buck-jumper.
buck-jumping n.
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1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. vii. 78 Australian horses have a vicious habit known as ‘buck-jumping’, or as it is more familiarly called, ‘bucking’.
1885 Forman (Dakota Territory) Item 26 May 6/3 The majority of the horses there [i.e. in Australia] are vicious and given to the trick of buck-jumping.
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