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Roughhousing ... or a hin
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horseplay
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Word definitions for horseplay in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Horseplay on the school bus is not allowed. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Cosmopolitan chief Marcelle d'Argy Smith stormed out of the historic Oxford Union debating chamber after sitting through 90 minutes of bawdy 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 five-piece English folk music based in County Durham . Their album Roughshod was released in 2006.
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.
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.