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means A child's toy made from a stick (often with a carved or stuffed horse-head on one end) that you straddle and 'ride' by running around.

from Straightforward compound of 'stick' + 'horse' — no hidden story here. It belongs to a broad, ancient family of hobby-horse toys: a stick or pole, sometimes topped with a crude horse head, that lets a child mimic riding. The term and toy have been around in English for centuries, part of the same lineage as the 'hobby horse,' with 'hobby' once being an old word for a small, lively horse.