horseshoe
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈhɔrsˌʃu/
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- Any good at pitching horseshoes?
- horseshoe magnet
Kind of like that would be like a a Sergeant telling a general to go screw himself, right, while they're playing horseshoes or whatever.
- Kind of like that would be like a a Sergeant telling a general to go screw himself, right, while they're playing horseshoes or whatever.
- The girl that I was dating, she ended up leaving me for a guy who was a did the horseshoes or whatever and it's called tossed them or cleaned them.
Examples
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Oh, here you are throwing horseshoes at a Sunday barbecue.
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It's an after-work game of horseshoes, folks pitching in several pits, others watching from picnic benches, sipping beers.
Fiction book (2002) -
Back home we toss a horseshoe in the pot.
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In the background, we see kids playing and some old men throwing horseshoes, etc.
Fiction book (1993) -
Bush also loved playing horseshoes so much that he had a permanent horseshoe pit set up on the lawn.
Blog text (6) -
Now just the day before, we'd all been pitching horseshoes.
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Some of them would test their skill in throwing horseshoes and the like, and they'd want to be readying themselves in good time.
Fiction book (1997) -
Uncle Kenny noticed some of the guys setting up a game of horseshoes and went to join them.
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Harper goes over and gathers the horseshoes littered around the target area.
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Any good at pitching horseshoes?
Compounds
- Specialized
2
7.8
A large sea animal with a hard shell shaped like a horseshoe and a long pointed tail
- Indian
A sea animal with a hard shell and a long tail spine that lives on Asian coasts
A small wild plant that flowers every year with yellow flower clusters and pods shaped like small horseshoes
A thin, fast snake from Europe and Asia with a horseshoe-shaped mark on its head
- Australian
A small bat with orange fur that lives in forests in northwest Australia
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Horseshoe for the game also comes from horse + shoe, because people used old iron 'shoes' from horses for play. Throwing these U-shaped metal shoes at a stake became the sport, so the game piece kept the name.