polo pony


noun

a small, swift, agile horse specially trained for use in polo.

Origin of polo pony

First recorded in 1880–85

Example sentences from the Web for polo pony

  • It is as though a polo-pony, breaking loose, ran out to learn the game alone.'

    Kim |Rudyard Kipling
  • He was a broncho with disreputable manners; now he is a polo-pony with a neat tail.

    The Imitator |Percival Pollard
  • I lent him the Jamaica polo-pony one day and it ran away with him and flung him off in the middle of a ford.

    Wounds in the rain |Stephen Crane