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shag pony
West
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
originally, a wild pony, a mustang; later generalized in the West as a name for any horse, often with a derogatory or contemptuous connotation.
Quotations
1918
. . . every morning, after sucking a couple of eggs for a breakfast, E. A. Partridge took to loping across the prairie on a "Shag" pony.