buckjumping

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English

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Etymology

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From buck +‎ jumping.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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buckjumping (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) The action (of a horse) of aggressively attempting to buck a rider.
    • 1863, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 299:
      But, after a little preliminary buckjumping, Pyrrhus falsified his keeper′s prediction by behaving well and obediently.
  2. (Australia) A rodeo event in which the rider attempts to stay in the saddle of a bucking horse for a set period.
    • 1857, Godfrey Charles Mundy, Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies[1], page 57:
      The well-known Australian horse-play, called buckjumping, — the like of which I do not remember seeing in any other part of the world, — is not only very disagreeable but extremely dangerous even to the good horseman.
    • 1893, Ernest Favenc, Tales of the Austral Tropics, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0600691h:
      “How well you ride, Mr. McIntyre!” said Miss Webster in the course of the dinner. “I must confess I like to see a bit of good buckjumping.”
      Duncan smiled. “I nearly came to grief under that low brigalow though,” he said.