horses

horses

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔrsəz/, /ˈhɔrsɪz/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪz

Noun

horses

1. plural of horse
2. (slang) horsepower
   • 1979, Al Greenwood and Lou Gramm, "Rev on the Red Line" from Head Games:

     I got four hundred horses tucked under the hood.

   • 1994, Blood (The X-Files)

     This is a diagnostic test of your engine. You're supposed to have an output of a hundred and sixty-eight horses at sixty-two hundred R.P.M.s. You're nowhere near that.

Verb

horses

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of horse

Anagrams

• hosers, shoers, shores