bareback

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From bare + back.

I knew there were no houses along our trail and I might have to go clean back to the tepees--fifteen miles bareback. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Why, I wouldn't have been jarred more if Piddie had announced that next season he was going to do bareback ridin' for some circus. — Torchy and Vee, Sewell Ford
It might be, that a man with a strong constitution could catch a cyclone and ride it bareback across the United States and then have a fresh one ready to ride back again, but to catch a buffalo bull in the full flush of manhood, as it were, and retain his tail while he crossed three reservations and two mountain ranges, requires great tenacity of purpose and unusual mental equipoise. — Remarks, Bill Nye

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