Dictionary › O › one-horse

one-horse

2 syllables

Quick answer

As an adjective, one-horse means small and remote and insignificant.

Meanings of one-horse

1 meaning

adjective

Small and remote and insignificant
“a jerkwater college”
“passed a series of poky little one-horse towns”
Similar: jerkwater, pokey, poky

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: small and remote and insignificant

jerkwater pokey poky

Nearby words

one-armed one by one one-dimensional one-eyed one-half one-handed one-man one million million one-on-one one-quarter one-sided one-third