1.
[syn: jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
one-horse \one"-horse`\, a.
1. Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse; as, a
one-horse carriage.
[1913 Webster]
2. Second-rate; inferior; small; as, a one-horse town.
[Slang, U.S.]
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
one-horse
adj 1: small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater
college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse
towns" [syn: jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky]