Definition of "one-horse town" []

• A very small town. (noun)

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• "Tarin Kowt, the provincial capital of Uruzgan, is a dusty one-horse town around which would swirl one of the most crucial battles of the war against the Taliban."
• "For Kerouac, the vitality of the human spirit was explored from the back of an open-bed produce truck or chewing the fat in an overnight stop in a one-horse town in which anything or absolutely nothing would happen."