Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Rowdy or rough play.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Coarse or rude play.
Wiktionary
- n. Rough or rowdy play that can often result in unintentional physical harm.
- v. To engage in horseplay.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Rude, boisterous play.
WordNet 3.0
- n. rowdy or boisterous play
Etymologies
- A compound of horse + play, possibly from observation of boisterous horses playing. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While it's often used as a substitute for the term "horseplay", meaning rough-and-tumble behavior, it's also used as a euphemism for play with sexual connotations, due in part to the”
“BROWN: Well, there was also some -- what ` s called horseplay in the workplace according to her lawyer where some people were slapping each other on their rear ends.”
“Balfour's injury was the result of what manager Joe Maddon described as horseplay between the reliever and pitching coach Jim Hickey.”
“After the brother, 20-year-old Franklin S. Emilcar, came to the door with a. 38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, the two engaged in what Shaw described as horseplay, joking and wrestling over the gun until it fired.”
“BLOOMINGTON -- A 16-year-old Bloomington boy remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday night after being run over by a van during what police described as horseplay with friends Monday in the O†™ Neil Park parking lot.”
“The incident, while distressing, could also be defined as horseplay and the remedy taken on the plane treated it exactly as that," Leedy told the judge, arguing the charges should be dropped.”
“A training video declares that "horseplay" is absolutely prohibited.”
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“Thats News: Could 'horseplay' solve family problems?”
“Barry, a salesman for Clear Channel's WKRC-AM, says he was hurt Jan. 6 during "horseplay" with Bengals radio analyst Dave Lapham, a longtime friend.”
“In the English universities we have no trace of the "jocund advent" during the medieval period, but it is impossible to doubt that this kind of horseplay existed at Oxford and Cambridge.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘horseplay’.
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horse phrases
phrases compounds
horned horse, horse aloes, horse-and-buggy, horse and foot, horse and horse, horse ant, horse arm, horse-armoury, horse-arms, horse-artillery, horse-ball, horse-balm and 445 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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fun
Funafuti, Funchal, fung-hwang, fundic, fungic, funge, fungo, funfair, functor, fungian, fungiform, fungibility and 58 more...
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Nonsense
Synonyms of "nonsense"
tomfoolery, balderdash, poppycock, lalapalooza, hullabaloo, hodgepodge, gibberish, shenanigans, hootenanny, jabberwocky, gobbledygook, mummery and 21 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
hurlyburly, hurtle, hodgepodge, heartwood, hatch, halo, hooptedoodle, hacienda, hairpin, heyday, hardscrabble, hopper and 208 more...
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Special Beasts
I'm looking for compounds or phrases where the character of an animal is essential to the meaning, yet the term is usable in general conversation.
scapegoat, bull market, sacred cow, bear market, hangdog, cat o' nine tails, clothes horse, mousey, donkey drop, black sheep, horseplay, ducks and drakes and 94 more...
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Noah's Park
Hello, and Welcome™! Come and visit our most diverse land of our Animalesque™ adventures. Here at Noah's Park™ we have Virtually All You'd Ever Want To See™. An experience that is related to ani...
sheep's eyes, doe-eyed, cat-eyed, bug-eyed, cat's paw, black swan, leapfrog, menagerie, cold turkey, card shark, snail's pace, bull's eye and 362 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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wordn't-you-just-know-it
autopolyploid, stimthought, vandanbladderstiddle, word's eye view, ménagerie à trois, technonotice, bluebell, slanticular, ante-jentacular, splunge, turkish room, uxorial and 770 more...
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let the wild rumpus start!
mischief of one kind...and another
tom foolery, caper, frolic, lark, rumpus, mischief, shenanigan, escapade, gambol, monkeyshine, revel, skylarking and 28 more...
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Favorite actions . . .
quash, ravaging, leering, spelunk, fuck, gorge, behead, dismember, mingle, trespass, revenge, baffle and 35 more...
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This List Could Choke a Horse
horse-drawn, horse chestnut, horseless carriage, saddle horse, light horse, pommel horse, horsepower, hobbyhorse, hobby-horse, rocking horse, iron horse, flying horse and 82 more...
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The Thick of It
Words from the Christmas O7 special of the UK political satire
americant, fucktastic, bumlicker, horseplay, maelstrom, nutter, supergrass, scotchwolf, linkjacking, policy-flavour, flunky, heft and 4 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for horseplay.
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