rodeo

rodeo
masculine noun
1. detour (camino largo)
  • dar un rodeo -> to make a detour
2. (evasiva)
  • rodeos -> evasiveness
  • andar o ir con rodeos -> to beat about the bush
  • hablar sin rodeos -> to come straight to the point
3. rodeo (espectáculo)
4. rounding up (reunión de ganado)

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rodeo [ro-day’-o]
noun
1. Detour, the act of going round; a circuitous way or road; turn to elude another (desvío). (m)
2. Place in a fair or market where horned cattle are exposed to sale. (m)
3. Delay, protraction, tedious method. (m)
4. Evasion (evasión), subterfuge. (m)
5. Enclosing cattle for the purpose of counting and marking them. (Colloquial & Mexico) (m)
6. Roundup, rodeo. (Ante Meridian & Latin American) (m)
  • Dar un rodeo -> to make a detour
  • Dejarse de rodeos -> to talk straight

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