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ponies

noun A2
  1. Horsepower. (slang)
  2. Horse racing or racehorses. (slang) · My husband is forever throwing away money on the ponies.· Around here, back then, the mob ran both the ponies and the numbers. [two forms of gambling]
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But she is perfectly amiable, and often condescends to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and ponies.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 74 · B2
Your idea of the ponies is delightful.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 364 · B2
Only yesterday I saw one of the moor ponies wander into it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 81 · C1
By George, there is another of those miserable ponies!”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 81 · C1

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