racehorse

Noun

Meaning

a horse bred for racing

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

bangtail race horse arab mount mustang thoroughbred nag horse jumper beast mare pony stallion courser race
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Hypernyms

horse Equus caballus

Hyponyms

thoroughbred pacer pony dark horse trotter pacemaker

Phrases with the word

poor man's racehorse quarter horse racehorse

Anagrams

horserace

Examples

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. Ernest Hemingway

I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic. Steve McManaman

A jockey does not have to have been a racehorse. Arrigo Sacchi

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On your own donkey it is quicker than on someone else's racehorse. Yugoslav Proverb

The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey. Irish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

racefemine racegoer racegoing racehorse goanna racehorse keno raceless