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ponies
noun- horse races held for ponies AUSTRALIA
- Syphilitic from birth, he had started as an apprentice in a racing stable, got too heavy, and began touting at the ponies, became a pickpocket, skilful on difficult jobs, but “rolled the drunks” as well. — Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory, p. 259, 1950
- The ARC took advantage of this situation and instituted special races from which horses above the 14.2 limit were excluded. These meetings became known as ‘the ponies’. — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 26, 1982
- horsepower US
- — John Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 127, 1993
▶ push ponies
to work as a pimp US, 1987- — Maledicta, p. 150, Summer/Winter 1986–1987: “Sexual slang: prostitutes, pedophiles, flagellators, transvestites, and necrophiles”
▶ the ponies
horse racing UK, 1961- I know guys who go to racetracks who say that about the ponies. — George V. Higgins, Penance for Jerry Kennedy, p. 75, 1985
- [T]he sentimental image of the old dear [the Queen Mother] who liked a flutter on the ponies, loved her tipple, waved away her overdraft and was good for a laugh[.] — The Guardian, 1 April 2002
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