HORSEPLAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horseplay mean? 

• HORSEPLAY (noun)
  The noun HORSEPLAY has 1 sense:

1. rowdy or boisterous play

  Familiarity information: HORSEPLAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSEPLAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rowdy or boisterous play

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("horseplay" is a kind of...):

caper; frolic; gambol; play; romp (gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement)

 Context examples 

It was the same meal and the same cooking as their Norse or German ancestors might have sat down to fourteen centuries before, and, indeed, as I looked through the steam of the dishes at the lines of fierce and rugged faces, and the mighty shoulders which rounded themselves over the board, I could have imagined myself at one of those old-world carousals of which I had read, where the savage company gnawed the joints to the bone, and then, with murderous horseplay, hurled the remains at their prisoners.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)