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单词 horsed around
释义

horse around

verb

horsed around; horsing around; horses around

intransitive verb

: to engage in horseplay
horse around together, joking and laughing and pushing each other D. K. Shipler
also : fool around sense 1

Synonyms

  • act up
  • clown (around)
  • cut up
  • fool around
  • hotdog
  • monkey (around)
  • show off
  • showboat
  • skylark
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Example Sentences

the boys were horsing around on the boat when one of them fell overboard

Word History

First Known Use

1919, in the meaning defined above

horsed around

verb

past tense of horse around
as in fooled around
to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior the boys were horsing around on the boat when one of them fell overboard

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • fooled around
  • cut up
  • showed off
  • acted up
  • clowned (around)
  • monkeyed (around)
  • skylarked
  • hotdogged
  • showboated
  • carried on
  • reveled
  • roared
  • revelled
  • roughhoused
  • wassailed
  • misbehaved
  • gamboled
  • capered
  • cavorted
  • romped
  • frisked
  • larked
  • caroused
  • rollicked
  • gambolled
  • frolicked
  • mafficked
  • disported
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