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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bronco
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is like riding a bucking bronco.
▪ Mow alfalfa and bundle it in bales, shear sheep, bust broncos.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bronco

Bronco \Bron"co\, n. Same as Broncho.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bronco

also broncho, 1850, American English, "untamed or half-tamed horse," from noun use of Spanish bronco (adj.) "rough, rude," originally a noun meaning "a knot in wood," perhaps from Vulgar Latin *bruncus "a knot, projection," apparently from a cross of Latin broccus "projecting" (see broach (n.)) + truncus "trunk of a tree" (see trunk (n.)). Bronco-buster is attested from 1886.

Wiktionary
bronco

n. A horse of western North America that is wild or not fully broken.

WordNet
bronco

n. an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang [syn: bronc, broncho]

Wikipedia
Bronco

A bronco or bronc, in the United States, northern Mexico and Canada, is an untrained horse or one that habitually bucks. It may be a feral horse that has lived in the wild its entire life, but can also be a domestic horse either not fully trained to saddle or poorly trained, and hence prone to unpredictable behavior, particularly bucking. The term also refers to bucking horses used in rodeo "rough stock" events, such as bareback bronc riding and saddle bronc riding. The silhouette of a cowboy on a bucking bronco is the official symbol for the State of Wyoming.

In modern usage, the word "bronco" is seldom used for a "wild" or feral horse, because the modern rodeo bucking horse is a domestic animal. Some are specifically bred for bucking ability and raised for the rodeo, while others are spoiled riding horses who have learned to quickly and effectively throw off riders. Informally, the term is often applied in a joking manner to describe any horse that acts up and bucks with or without a rider. The Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 prevents the capture of mustangs from the wild for commercial use, and though the law has been weakened in recent years, "wild" mustangs and other completely untamed horses are still no longer used on the rodeo circuit, as bigger, more powerful animals that are sufficiently domesticated to be handled from the ground for veterinary care, travel, and stabling in small pens are more desirable as rodeo stock.

In the early American west, most cattle ranches simply allowed young horses to grow up in a feral state on the open range, capturing them at maturity to be broken in or "broke" to make them tame enough to ride. Sometimes Mustangs were rounded up as well, as the two populations often mixed.

Bronco (TV series)

Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin (the last played by Scott Marlowe).

Bronco (disambiguation)

Bronco (also Bronko) originally referred to a horse that bucks or is untrained.

Bronco or Broncos or Bronko may also refer to:

Bronco (English band)

Bronco were an English rock/country band signed to Island & Polydor Records 1969-1973.

Bronco (wrestler)

Bronco (born December 26, 1989 in Gómez Palacio, Durango, Mexico) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) portraying a rudo ("bad guy") wrestling character. Bronco's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans.

Bronco (album)

Bronco is the debut album by American country artist Canaan Smith. It was released on June 23, 2015 via Mercury Nashville. The album includes all five songs from his self-titled extended play, including the number one single " Love You Like That". The title track is a tribute to Smith's older brother, Nathaniel, who died in a car crash.

Usage examples of "bronco".

Bronco and I took Wren to the infirmary, Cutter had her hooked up to those antivenom IVs.

Technicians were taking pictures when Detective Ray Bisse arrived in his brown Crown Victoria and parked beside the Bronco.

White House jobs are about as secure and longlasting as a bronco ride.

Vietnamese animal husbanders were standing behind the new metal fencing when Lieutenant Prout showed them how to stab the Yorkshire hog, so they got an excellent panoramic view of the hog pretending to be a bucking bronco, or one of those Brahma bulls, that jump into the air and simultaneously twist energetically, with enough force to throw Swedish syringes out of their bones if they have any stuck in them.

She was cold, but the heater in her Bronco would unthaw her hands and feet.

Charles Melville has broken Varmin Way, has tamed it, is riding it like a bronco through the city and beyond.

I realized that they looked upon me as the Wild Colonial Boy, the bronco buster from the Barcoo, and I determined to act up to it.

The helicopters had to do some fancy footwork to avoid the erratic maneuvers of the pilotless Bronco as it pulled into a series of chandelles and lazy-eights over the battlefield.

Jean Scholl, the patrolwoman who found the Bronco, had something to do with it.

He checked again with his binoculars, and then he did see something: There was a Ford Bronco pulled behind some trees to the right of the cabin, well out of sight of the lower driveway.

The Bronco was in one corner of the compound, hunkered down in a pool of its body fluids.

Vicky Holden aimed the Bronco through the silent streets of the Lander neighborhood she had called home the past three years.

Darkness settled over the Bronco the instant she flipped off the headlights.

An hour later, Vicky guided the Bronco up the winding, snow-glazed road in Sage Canyon.

The Bronco slid in a half circle before stopping at the metal gate blocking the road.