bronco-busting love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process of breaking broncos to the saddle.

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Examples

  • And if Roky Roulette's first appearance, looking like KFC's Colonel Sanders, ends in a torrent of multicolored feathers whisked out of his G-string — "It looks like a muppet exploded out here," says Miss Kitten afterward — his Cowboy routine, a bronco-busting ride on a pogo-stick horse, winds up in showers of multicolored stardust glitter scooped out of the same prodigious source.

    Burlesque Is Back in Paris Judy Fayard 2010

  • The one producer-like thing I did that was of some actual use was to prevent a bronco-busting scene that might well have cost the young Jonny Lee Miller his life.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • Farlow borrowed the Frontier Days idea from Arizona, but he added stagecoach holdups and horse-team relay races to the usual bronco-busting and steer-roping events.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • It ended with a truly disturbing Hugh Grant impression, followed by Downey bronco-busting the deck railing — still the most entertaining interview of my very silly career.

    Robert Downey Jr... remembers? | EW.com 2006

  • After this almost every day we had exhibitions of bronco-busting, in which all the crack riders of the regiment vied with one another, riding not only all of our own bad horses but any horse which was deemed bad in any of the other regiments.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • After a day of bronco-busting in the corral, or of riding hour after hour, head on into the driven snow-dust, there was a sense of real achievement when night fell, and a consciousness of strength.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • I mean by this that I never became a first-flight man in the hunting field, and never even approached the bronco-busting class in the West.

    An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

  • I mean by this that I never became a first-flight man in the hunting field, and never even approached the bronco-busting class in the West.

    II. The Vigor of Youth 1913

  • After this almost every day we had exhibitions of bronco-busting, in which all the crack riders of the regiment vied with one another, riding not only all of our own bad horses but any horse which was deemed bad in any of the other regiments.

    VI. The Return Home 1899

  • "But we went in for bronco-busting, and rounding-up, and all that."

    Dave Porter and His Rivals or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall Edward Stratemeyer 1896

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