Usually means: Toy representing horse for children.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word hobby horse:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hobby-Horse, hobby-horse: Wordnik
  2. hobby horse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. hobby-horse, hobby horse: Wiktionary
  4. hobby horse: Dictionary.com
  5. Hobby-horse, Hobby horse (disambiguation), Hobby horse (toy), Hobby horse, The Hobby Horse (film), The Hobby Horse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Hobby-horse, Hobby-horse: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  7. Hobby-horse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. hobby-horse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hobby horse: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hobby horse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hobby Horse: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hobby horse)

noun:  (originally) The Irish hobby, an extinct breed of horse.
noun:  A child's toy consisting of a (usually wooden or cloth) horse's head mounted on a stick.
noun:  (figuratively) A topic about which someone loves to talk at great length.
noun:  A puppet-like costume used in some traditional dances and festivals that gives its wearer the appearance of a man on horseback.
noun:  (cycling, historical) An early bicycle with no pedals or brakes.
verb:  (nautical) to pitch back and forth

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