horses
English
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edit- (horse–hoarse merger)
- (General American) IPA(key): /hoɹsɪz/, (weak vowel merger) /hoɹsəz/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪz
- (without the horse–hoarse merger)
- (rhotic) IPA(key): /hɔːɹsɪz/, (weak vowel merger) /hɔːɹsəz/
- (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /hɔːsɪz/, (weak vowel merger) /hɔːsəz/
Noun
edithorses
- plural of horse
- (slang) Horsepower.
- 1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games:
- I got four hundred horses tucked under the hood.
- 1994, Blood (The X-Files), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- 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
edithorses
- third-person singular simple present indicative of horse
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