Definition of "one-horse" []

• Drawn by or using only one horse: a one-horse carriage. (adjective)
• Very small or insignificant: a one-horse town. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "However, when I visited my older brothers in the cities, it was exciting to hear the vegetable and fruit man calling out his wares as his one-horse drawn cart rambled through the streets."
• "Because the Knicks have been a one-horse team for much of this season, Stoudemire has put up unreasonable amounts of minutes on knees that have both been surgically repaired."
• ""It's a one-horse town and it's time to diversify, perhaps," Shirley Tapley, the town administrator, said as she gazed out of her office window at the idle mill."