Definitions for stalking-horse

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stalking-horse stalk·ing-horse

Spelling: [staw-king-hawrs]

IPA: /ˌstɔ kɪŋˌhɔrs/

Stalking-Horse is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 3697 anagrams from letters in stalking-horse (-aeghiklnorsst).

Definitions for stalking-horse

noun

1. a horse, or a figure of a horse, behind which a hunter hides in stalking game.
2. anything put forward to mask plans or efforts; pretext.
3. a political candidate used to conceal the candidacy of a more important figure or to draw votes from and cause the defeat of a rival.

Origin of stalking-horse

First recorded in 1510-20

Examples for stalking-horse

The sotie was directly satirical, and only assumed the guise of folly as a stalking-horse for shooting wit.

Kitty was still the stalking-horse behind which, for whatever reasons, he machinated.

The cardinal was put forward as a stalking-horse, to be discarded at the right moment.

Though she used him as a stalking-horse, he, after all, was playing with her as a cat plays with a mouse.

Thus Balder the Beautiful in my hands is little more than a stalking-horse to carry two heavy pack-loads of facts.

It is in truth the Hamilton party, whereof Pinckney is only made the stalking-horse.

The claim of kindred cannot for ever be the stalking-horse for injustice.'

That revolt of Saint-Antoine got up by traitor Royalists for a stalking-horse?

Incredible that he should have chosen Kitty for his stalking-horse—yet whom else had there been to choose?

For many years we have been the butt of the Tibetans, and China their stalking-horse.