pantomime horse noun

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n [C] UK

Definition

two people pretending humorously to be a horse by dressing in special clothes and standing one behind the other so that the front person appears as the horse's front half and the person behind forms the back part

(Definition of pantomime horse noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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