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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word dead horse:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead horse: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead horse: Wordnik
  3. dead horse: Wiktionary
  4. dead horse: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Dead horse, dead horse: Dictionary.com
  6. Dead Horse (album), Dead Horse (band), Dead Horse (disambiguation), Dead Horse (song), Dead Horse, Dead horse (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Dead Horse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. dead horse: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Dead horse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead horse, dead horse, dead horse, dead horse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dead horse: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Dead Horse: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (dead horse)

noun:  (dated, nautical) The period of work on board ship for which the seamen have been paid in advance (usually a month's wages), the end of this term being celebrated by parading a straw horse about the decks.
noun:  (Australia, rhyming slang) Tomato sauce.
noun:  (idiomatic) Alternative form of beat a dead horse / flog a dead horse

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