horses

English

Pronunciation

• (with the horse-hoarse merger)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /hoɹsɪz/, (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /hoɹsəz/

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  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪz
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) IPA^(key): /hɔːɹsɪz/, (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /hɔːɹsəz/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /hɔːsɪz/, (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /hɔːsəz/

Noun

horses

1. plural of horse
2. (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

horses

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of horse

Anagrams

• hosers, shoers, shores