horizontal dancing
engaging in sexual activity
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horizontal jogging
engaging in sexual activity
horizontal mambo
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
horizontal refreshments
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
horizontal slam dance
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
horizontal tango
a euphemism for sexual intercourse
horn
To cuckold.
horn colic
A temporary priapism.
horn mad
A person extremely jealous of his wife, is said to be horn mad. Also a cuckold, who does not cut or breed his horns easily.
horn of fidelity
Morgan le Fay sent a horn to King Arthur, which had the following "virtue" : — No lady could drink out of it who was not "to her husband true"; all others who attempted to drink were sure to spill what it contained. This horn was carried to King Mark, and "his queene with a hundred ladies more'* tried the experiment, but only four managed to "drinke cleane.
horn of plenty
Amalthea's horn (tf.v.), the cornucopia, an emblem of plenty.
horned up
horny
horns
To draw in one's horns; to retract an assertion through fear: metaphor borrowed from a snail, who on the apprehension of danger, draws in his horns, and retires to his shell.
hornswoggle
Nonsense, humbug. Believed to be of American origin.
horror show
A situation or event that is chaotic or disastrous
horrors
The low spirits, or "blue devils," which follow intoxication. Incipient del. trem.
horse
Contraction of Horsemonger-Lane Gaol, also a slang term for a five-pound note.
horse and buggy
an old-fashioned or outdated thing
horse and carriage
a traditional wedding gift
horse and foot
The cavalry and infantry; hence all one's forces; with all one's might.
horse and rabbit stew
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
horse armor
A useless or unnecessary feature or product
horse around
To fool around or waste time
horse buss
A kiss with a loud smack; also a bite.
horse chaunter
A dealer who takes worthless horses to country fairs and disposes of them by artifice. He is generally an unprincipled fellow, and will put in a glass eye, fill a beast with shot, plug him with ginger, or in fact do anything so that he sells to advantage. See COPER.
horse collar
The vagina.
horse coser
A dealer in horses: vulgarly and corruptly pronounced HORSE COURSER. The verb TO COSE was used by the Scots, in the sense of bartering or exchanging.
horse godmother
A large masculine woman, a gentlemanlike kind of a lady.
horse ladder
A piece of Wiltshire wit, which consists in sending some raw lad, or simpleton, to a neighbouring farm house, to borrow a horse ladder, in order to get up the horses, to finish a hay-mow.
horse nails
At the game of cribbage, when a player finds it his policy to keep his antagonist back, rather than push himself forward, and plays accordingly, he is sometimes said "to feed his opponent on HORSE NAILS."
horse of a different color
A completely different matter or issue
horse opera
a Western movie or television show
horse pill
a large or unpleasant pill
horse sense
Practical common sense; the term originated in western U.S.A.
horse tranquilizer
A strong sedative or intoxicant
horse's ass
a foolish or stupid person
horse's meal
A meal without drinking.
horse's mouth
directly from the original or most reliable source
horse-hung
Having a large penis.
horseback opinion
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
horsehide
A baseball.
horseradish
Nonsense.
horses
Horsepower.
horseshoe up one's ass
to have extremely good luck
horseshoes and handgrenades
Close enough, but not quite accurate
horsey
Like a groom or jockey. Applied also to persons who affect the turf in dress or conversation.
horse’s nightcap
A halter; "to die in a HORSE’S NIGHTCAP," to be hanged.
hose down
to stop or silence someone
hossie
hospital
host is carried to sick people
In pre-Reforma- tion England it was a vessel, often in the shape of a dove, suspended above the altar, in which the sacrament was reserved. Only in the churches of Amiens and Valloires is such a pyx now permitted.
hot air
Empty talk, boasting, threats, etc.; bombast. Hence, a hot-air merchant* one whose "vaporizings" are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"; a declamatory windbag.
hot and bothered
Annoyed and agitated, often due to frustration or irritation
hot and cold
having mixed or contradictory feelings
hot and heavy
Intense.
hot and high
relating to aircraft performance at high temperatures and altitudes
hot and hot
Hot dishes served in succession at a meal.
hot as fire
Very hot
hot cockles
A Christmas game. One blind- folded knelt down, and being struck had to guess who gave the blow.
hot coppers
The feverish sensations experienced in the morning by those who have been drunk over-night.
hot desking
Sharing a workspace with others who use it at different times
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