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Rough Rider

Variant of roughrider

noun

  1. a person who breaks horses so that they can be ridden
  2. a person who does much hard, rough riding
  3. ☆ a member of a volunteer cavalry regiment organized by Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood for service in the Spanish American War (1898)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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