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hobbyhorse definition

hobby·horse (häb′ē hôrs′)

noun

    1. a figure of a horse attached to the waist of a person doing a morris dance so that the person seems to be riding it
    2. such a dancer
  2. a child's toy consisting of a stick with a horse's head at one end: it is straddled in a pretense of riding
  3. rocking horse
  4. a scheme or idea with which one is preoccupied

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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