one-horse

2 definitions found

one-horse - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  one-horse \one"-horse`\, a.
     1. Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse; as, a
        one-horse carriage.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Second-rate; inferior; small; as, a one-horse town.
        [Slang, U.S.]
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

one-horse - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  one-horse
      adj 1: small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater
             college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse
             towns" [syn: jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky]