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Hobby horse
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A hobby horse (or hobbyhorse) can be several things:
- A toy horse, consisting of a model of a horse's head, usually wooden, attached to a stick. This is often used by children to simulate riding a horse, see Hobby-horse.
- A toy horse suspended by springs from a frame
- A rocking horse
- The figure of a horse fastened around the waist in the Morris dance.
- Euphemistically, in Shakespearean times, a prostitute or promiscuous woman
- Someone's favorite topic, to which he constantly reverts.
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