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one-horse

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one-horse (wnhôrs)
adj.
1. Drawn by or using only one horse: a one-horse carriage.
2. Very small or insignificant: a one-horse town.
one-horse
Adjective
Informal small or insignificant: a dusty one-horse town in the foothills of the Karakoram mountain range
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Adj.1.one-horse - small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
jerkwater, pokey, poky
provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
one-horse
adjective (Informal) (of a tow) small, slow, quiet, minor, obscure, sleepy, unimportant, small-time (informal) backwoods, tinpot Brit. (informal)


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Pa, he 'lowed he'd break up and go down and live with Uncle Ben, who's got a little one-horse place on the river, forty-four mile below Orleans.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
It is said that a stranger took a one-horse carriage for a course-- tariff, half a franc.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
We will start, if you please, in the railway--we will proceed in a one-horse chaise--and we will stop at a village, situated in a hole.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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