Other forms: broncos
A bronco is a wild or half-broken horse of the American West. Ride a bronco, a bucking bronco, break the bronco.
Bronc riding is a rodeo event in two forms, saddled and bareback, and eight seconds is the required ride. The word is Spanish for rough, and Mexican usage applied it to a horse not yet broken.
1nounbroncoA wild or half-broken horse of the American West.
“The cowboy clung to the bucking bronco as the crowd cheered.”
bronco is a horse.
Spanish bronco means rough, and in Mexican usage described an unbroken horse.
Spanish
bronco — rough
English, today
bronco
Borrowed from Spanish bronco (“rough”), 19 which in Mexican usage also describes a horse that has not been broken and is still wild.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA