Etymology

From buck +‎ jumpingCategory:English compound terms#BUCKJUMPING.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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1. (AustraliaCategory:Australian English#BUCKJUMPING) 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.

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2. (AustraliaCategory:Australian English#BUCKJUMPING) 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, 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.

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   • 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.

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