rough rider

1. 1.

   a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898)

   Broadercavalryman

Questions about rough rider

What does rough rider mean?

rough rider means "a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898)".

Is rough rider a common word?

rough rider is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.