cow college


noun Informal.

an agricultural college.
a small, relatively unknown rural college.

Origin of cow college

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby cow college

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]