horse around
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Can we quit horsing around and get some work done?"
- "Stop horsing around with the controls, before you break something."
- "As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand."
- "A novel about writing a novel; a narrator who is and is not the author; general metafictional horsing around reflecting both the author’s and reader’s ambivalence about the novel."
- ""Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt." But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around."
- "I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg."