Definition
Of a horse or other animal, to rear up on its hind legs in order to throw off or dislodge its rider.
In Context
- "The paymaster and quartermaster were the only two officers left on the parade-ground to inspect us and see us off; the former made a remark about my dusty appearance, and on Sergeant Morris telling him I had been bucked off, he said I had no business to be sent up if I couldn't ride."
- "but this morning as he mounted, the horse went at it with such earnestness, that after tearing one boot to pieces, he pitched Billy off; then proceeded to buck off the saddle, and run away."
- "You can't learn to ride a horse unless you've been bucked off a great many times," said the tall, lean, leathery broncho-buster who taught me how to ride a horse."
- "When a horse bucks off a few cowboys, he learns ta do a better job everytime, an it don't take much ta make him blow the plug, an he'll throw a good rider when he hain't lookin' fer it."
- "Relevant to this is the story a saddle bronc rider told me about a pack horse in Glacier National Park who started bucking off his packs."
- "Which in my neck of the woods translates to mean that if I'm fully prepared to get bucked off my horse in a negative critique, and then I actually get bucked off, I'm a lot less stunned about it than if I assumed my horse wasn't the bucking type."
- "I could ride the horse most of the time, but when he'd give me a new twist, I'd usually get bucked off."