HORSE
- Noun. A poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand.
- Noun. A hoofed mammal (scientific name ''Equus caballus'').
- Noun. (context, zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family ''Equidae'', including the zebra or the ass.
- Noun. (uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (often capitalized).
- Noun. In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.
- Noun. (context, chess) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.
- Noun. (slang) A large person.
- Noun. (nautical) A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; foot ropes.
- Noun. (slang) The sedative, anti-depressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
- Verb. (transitive) To provide with a horse.
- Verb. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischieviously. Usually followed by "around".
- Verb. (obsolete) To get on horseback.
- Noun. (uncountable, slang) Heroin.
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