horses

Etymology

noun

  1. plural of horse
  2. (slang) Horsepower.
    I got four hundred horses tucked under the hood. 1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games
    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. 1994, Blood (The X-Files), (Please provide the book title or journal name)

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of horse

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