horse·shoe (hôrs'shū', hôrsh'-)
n.

1. A flat U-shaped metal plate fitted and nailed to the bottom of a horse's hoof for protection.
2. A U-shaped object similar to a horseshoe.
3. horseshoes (used with a sing. verb) A game in which players toss horseshoes or horseshoe-shaped metal pieces at a stake so as to encircle it or come closer to it than the other players.

tr.v., -shoed, -shoe·ing, -shoes.
To fit with horseshoes.

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