as in to fool around
to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior
the boys were horsing around on the boat when one of them fell overboard
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Recent Examples of horse around
Melissa Joan Hart on nearly being fired from Sabrina over Maxim photo shoot: 'Worst day of my life'
Other photos on Hart’s profile show her family horsing around in the Truckee River, swimming in the lake, and relaxing on the beach.
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Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 4 July 2024
Grandmaster Han An, 59; his wife, Hong, 55; sons Simon and Christian, 20 and 18, and 22-year-old daughter Hannah at first thought the sounds emanating from the Cricket Wireless store next door were just employees horsing around.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024
Younger users lapped up its fun-house features and spent hours on it horsing around.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
In the background, her housemates horse around, pretending to have a threesome—the kind of outrageous hookup their producers had hoped for all along.
—Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024
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Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 4 July 2024
Grandmaster Han An, 59; his wife, Hong, 55; sons Simon and Christian, 20 and 18, and 22-year-old daughter Hannah at first thought the sounds emanating from the Cricket Wireless store next door were just employees horsing around.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024
Younger users lapped up its fun-house features and spent hours on it horsing around.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
In the background, her housemates horse around, pretending to have a threesome—the kind of outrageous hookup their producers had hoped for all along.
—Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horse around
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Why fool around with a convention that everyone understood and practiced?Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024
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Flashbacks peppered throughout the first several episodes reveal that Yasmin caught her father fooling around with a pregnant woman on the boat.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 16 Sep. 2024
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Jennifer Lawrence shows off her baby bump in a Bottega Veneta gown at the Governors Awards on Nov. 17 in Los Angeles. 89 of 120 Fore!Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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The comedian also showed off his black eye under his eye patch.Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024
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And past paintings, too, could be recycled, cut up and then reenlisted for new images.Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Each morning at 3 AM Lopez is at the Fulton Fish Market and all his orders are at the restaurant kitchen by 7 AM to be weighed and cut up, scaled and filleted.John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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But in 1954, Brando was at the height of his talents, bringing American acting up to and past to the British standard for the first time, with a realism achieved through that delicate balancing of gender qualities that pretty much no one before or after mastered in the same way.Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 23 July 2024
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Babies remain the last vestige of scoundrels in sequel terms, so naturally the movie introduces a son to Gru (voiced as usual by Steve Carell) and Lucy (Kristen Wiig) who, semi-amusingly, can’t stand his dad, screaming or acting up in some other way every time Gru picks him up.Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 July 2024
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Cramer noted that Price appeared to revel after Ford had his fingerprints and picture taken during the county’s standard booking process.East Bay Times editorial, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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The org reveled winners for its North America, Global, Latin America and Local competitions on Thursday night at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles.Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
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