n. Informal
- An agricultural college.
- A college or university considered to be provincial and unsophisticated.
cow college
| Dictionary: cow college |
n. Informal
| Idioms: 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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