A horseshave is an unecessary project that is somewhat tedious, serves no real purpose except for face time, and is assigned to you by your boss. You don't try to get out of it, though, because it's fairly easy and it's overtime so you get paid extra for it. The word may have originated among former stablehands in Connecticut, the North Shore of Long Island, and Upstate New York, who when they had little to do were told by their bosses, "you can always go shave the horses."
Supervisor: "Sorry about all the 'horseshaves' I'm assigning this week--the Suits up in Albany are really on my case to make everyone look extra busy before the semiannual audit. At least you're getting paid extra."
Worker: "It's Ok, but it's hard for me to understand how the suits are going to be impressed by the fact that we've made four-color pie charts to document how many people here are using the decaf from the department vending machine."
Worker: "It's Ok, but it's hard for me to understand how the suits are going to be impressed by the fact that we've made four-color pie charts to document how many people here are using the decaf from the department vending machine."
by Original JB November 16, 2006
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1. All these drunken fools running around....HEY! NO HORSEPLAY!
2. I want no part of the moshing in the elevator horseplay!
2. I want no part of the moshing in the elevator horseplay!
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A website that used to be full of cool kids that is now full of losers and the occasional decent person. The people who own it don't give a toss about whether there moderators are calling people - THEY JUST DON'T CARE. The new people are about 10 && go around shouting "Owwww I just slit my wrists."
PATHETIC.
PATHETIC.
Horseland Forum --
Emochild <3 Heartbroken: I just slit my wrists
HOTEMOCHICKANDCHEERLEADER: Me too! We are sad together
Hannah Montana: Hi, I am the real Hannah Montana!!
Emochild <3 Heartbroke: Your not Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana: Yes I am - YOUR JUST JELOUS
Emochild <3 Heartbroken: I just slit my wrists
HOTEMOCHICKANDCHEERLEADER: Me too! We are sad together
Hannah Montana: Hi, I am the real Hannah Montana!!
Emochild <3 Heartbroke: Your not Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana: Yes I am - YOUR JUST JELOUS
by I am annonymous January 11, 2009
Get the Horseland mug.The large rough green inedible fruit of the Bois D'Arc or Osage-orange tree. No, horses do not eat them. Nothing eats them. They've even been used as insecticide. And the fresh sap in them is nearly impossible to get off of anything it gets on.
They're called horse apples because they're round and the same shade of green as fresh horse shit.
They exist for kids to throw at each other and raise big welts.
They're called horse apples because they're round and the same shade of green as fresh horse shit.
They exist for kids to throw at each other and raise big welts.
by Bryonia May 29, 2009
Get the Horseapple mug.Roughousing, sometimes mock-wrestling, usually between two boys of similar age. "Horseplay" at first glance looks like actual fighting or wrestling until the more playful "fooling around" element become visible, but horseplay sometimes can deteriorate into real fighting.
A Midwestern urban regionalism means the same but includes a "get your back" connotation: grabass. No one considers that homoerotic.
A Midwestern urban regionalism means the same but includes a "get your back" connotation: grabass. No one considers that homoerotic.
"I told you, boys, no horseplay standing in line. You're not getting into the theater if you don't stop fooling around like that."
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2. thanks to horselandblog.com, i finally understand what it means to be a noob !
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