cow college

noun

Informal.

1. an agricultural college.

2. a small, relatively unknown rural college.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cow college¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Idioms and Phrases

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]