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horsed around

horsed around is the simple past and past participle of horse around.

Meaning of horse around

Verb

horse around (third-person singular simple present horses around, present participle horsing around, simple past and past participle horsed around)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To engage in horseplay.
    • Can we quit horsing around and get some work done?

Questions about horsed around

What is horsed around the simple past and past participle of?
Horsed around is the simple past and past participle of horse around.

Words near horsed around in the dictionary

  1. horsecombs
  2. horsecraft
  3. horsecrap
  4. horsed
  5. horsed about
  6. horsed around
  7. horsedealer
  8. horsedealers
  9. horsedealing
  10. horsedick
  11. horsedicks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horsed around (page history and authors); horse around (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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