cow college

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nounInformal.
  1. an agricultural college.

  2. a small, relatively unknown rural college.

Origin of cow college

1
First recorded in 1910–15

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How to use cow college in a sentence

  • In his post-graduate year in cow college, Dick devoted himself to laboratory work and cut all lectures.

  • Don't forget, my daughter, that your father knows the books as well as any cow college graduate from Oregon.

    Theft | Jack London
  • Been driving those cow-college boys down at Berkeley plumb crazy, I'll bet a prize colt!

    Judith of Blue Lake Ranch | Jackson Gregory

Other Idioms and Phrases with cow college

cow college

An agricultural college; any small, relatively unknown rural college. For example, He's never published a paper, but he might do all right in some cow college. This term uses cow in the somewhat pejorative sense of “provincial.” [c. 1910]

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