horses

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English

Pronunciation

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

horses

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

horses

third-person singular simple present indicative of horse

Anagrams

hosers, shoers, shores

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈxor.ses/,

Noun

horses

genitive singular of hors

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