horse around

horse around
verb
indulge in horseplay
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Enough horsing around—let's get back to work!

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The bored children were fooling about

• Syn: ↑arse around, ↑fool around, ↑fool
• Derivationally related forms: ↑fool (for: ↑fool), ↑foolery (for: ↑fool)
• Hypernyms: ↑play, ↑joke, ↑jest
• Verb Frames:
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horse around (informal)
To fool about, play boisterously
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Main Entry: ↑horse

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ˌhorse a ˈround [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they horse around he/she/it horses around present participle horsing around past tense horsed around past participle horsed around] phrasal verb
to play in a very lively or rough way
Thesaurus: to playsynonym
Main entry: horse

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informal fool around

schoolkids laughing and horsing around

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horse around (or Brit horse about) [phrasal verb]
informal : to play in a rough or loud way : to engage in horseplay

They were horsing around instead of studying.

He horsed around with the kids for a while.

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Main Entry: ↑horse

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ˌhorse aˈbout/aˈround derived
(informal) to play in a way that is noisy and not very careful so that you could hurt sb or damage sth
Syn: ↑fool around

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He fell through the window while horsing around with some friends.

Main entry: ↑horsederived

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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