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horseplay
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Word definitions for horseplay in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. rowdy or boisterous play
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horseplay \Horse"play`\, n. Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. --Dryden.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. rough or rowdy play that can often result in unintentional physical harm. vb. To engage in horseplay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rough, excessive play," 1580s, from horse (n.) with its associations of "strong, coarse" + play (n.). \n
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Horseplay is a 2014 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Lee Chi-ngai and starring Tony Leung , Ekin Cheng and Kelly Chen . The film's Cantonese and Mandarin theme song, Why Not Tonight and The Best Night respectively, was adapted from Henry Mancini ...
Usage examples of horseplay.
Only in the privacy of the wardroom could middies release their natural tensions in horseplay.
Gym bags and oversize canvas duffels had been lined up in random clusters while the kids themselves milled around, engaged in various forms of horseplay.
There was something weird, something repugnant about the thought of those men sitting up to their necks in wooden tubs of skin-scummy bathwater, splashing and horseplaying like kids in a swimming hole.
And there was something repugnant about the thought of those men sitting up to their necks in wooden tubs of skin-scummy bathwater, splashing and horseplaying like kids in a swimming hole.