Rough Rider

Variant of roughrider

roughrider definition

rough·rider (-rīd′ər)

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)
    also Rough Rider

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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