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View synonyms for roughrider

roughrider

[ ruhf-rahy-der ]

noun

  1. a person who breaks horses to the saddle.
  2. a person accustomed to rough or hard riding.


roughrider

/ ˈrʌfˌraɪdə /

noun

  1. a rider of wild or unbroken horses
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of roughrider1

First recorded in 1725–35; rough + rider
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Example Sentences

He was a permanent employee with no rap sheet and an interest in technology, but outside the plant he had a reputation as a roughrider.

Friends came to his rescue, however, and bid in his famous white horse, Ishan, which the Colonel always rode at the head of his roughriders.

Perhaps a half-hour after she entered the bungalow for breakfast she appeared again in the familiar roughrider’s outfit, adjusting the leather-fringed skirt over her breeches as she stood in the doorway.

I like him; he's the best roughrider I ever saw.

They are more ready to copy a corps of roughriders than a Roman cohort.

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