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Definition of rodeo noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rodeo

noun
 
/ˈrəʊdiəʊ/,
 
/rəʊˈdeɪəʊ/
 
/ˈrəʊdiəʊ/,
 
/rəʊˈdeɪəʊ/
(plural rodeos)
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  1. a public competition, especially in the US, in which people show their skill at riding wild horses and catching cattle with ropesTopics Sports: other sportsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryRodeo is used before these nouns:
    • arena
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    Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Spanish, from rodear ‘go round’, based on Latin rotare ‘rotate’.
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