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• horse around — verb indulge in horseplay Enough horsing around let s get back to work! The bored children were fooling about • Syn: ↑arse around, ↑fool around, ↑fool • Derivationally related forms: ↑fool ( …   Useful english dictionary

• horse around — verb To play or fiddle; to clown; to do nothing of importance or consequence. Can we quit horsing around and get some work done? Syn: act out, clown around …   Wiktionary

• horse around/about — (informal) FOOL AROUND/ABOUT, play the fool, act the clown, clown about/around, monkey about/around; informal mess about/around, lark about/around; Brit. informal muck about/around; dated play the giddy goat. → horse …   Useful english dictionary

• horse around/about — informal fool about. → horse …   English new terms dictionary

• horse — ► NOUN 1) a large four legged mammal with a flowing mane and tail, used for riding and for pulling heavy loads. 2) an adult male horse, as opposed to a mare or colt. 3) (treated as sing. or pl. ) cavalry. 4) a frame or structure on which… …   English terms dictionary

• horse — horseless, adj. horselike, adj. /hawrs/, n., pl. horses, (esp. collectively) horse, v., horsed, horsing, adj. n. 1. a large, solid hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties …   Universalium

• horse — horse1 W1S3 [ho:s US ho:rs] n [: Old English; Origin: hors] 1.) a large strong animal that people ride and use for pulling heavy things →↑pony, equine ↑equine, equestrian ↑equestrian ▪ a horse and cart ▪ Lee had never ridden a horse before …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• horse — 1 noun 1 a large strong animal that people ride on and use for pulling heavy things 2 the horses informal horse races 3 straight from the horse s mouth if you hear something straight from the horse s mouth, you are told it by someone who has… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• horse — noun 1》 a solid hoofed plant eating quadruped with a flowing mane and tail, domesticated for riding and as a draught animal. [Equus caballus and other species, family Equidae.]     ↘an adult male horse, as opposed to a mare or colt.     ↘[treated …   English new terms dictionary

• horse — /hɔs / (say haws) noun 1. a large, solid hoofed quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, and employed as a beast of draught and burden and for carrying a rider. 2. a male horse, fully grown and past its fourth birthday. 3 …  

• Horse latitudes — This article refers to the geographical area. For other uses, see Horse latitudes (disambiguation) Horsey latitudes or Subtropical High are subtropic latitudes between 30 and 35 degrees both north and south. This region, under a ridge of high… …   Wikipedia