Usually means: Fast mail service on horseback.
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  1. pony express: Merriam-Webster
  2. Pony Express: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pony express: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pony express: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pony express: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pony Express: Wordnik
  7. Pony Express: Wiktionary
  8. pony express: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. pony express: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pony Express: Dictionary.com
  11. Pony Express (TV series), Pony Express (disambiguation), Pony Express (film), Pony Express (roller coaster), Pony Express, Pony express (newspapers), Pony express, The Pony Express: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. pony express: Rhymezone
  13. pony express: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pony express: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. pony express: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pony Express, The Pony Express: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pony express: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pony Express)

▸ noun:  (historical) A 19th-century mail service delivering messages across North America by means of riders on horseback.

Similar:
dispatch rider, posthorse, post horse, post-horse, ponies, packhorse, led horse, pony-trekking, pack horse, pit pony, more...

Opposite:
snail mail, regular mail, postal service

Adjectives:
livery, coachy, dicky, liveried, hackney, horse-drawn, dilly, bandy, horsedrawn, draft, sulky

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Similar:
dispatch rider, posthorse, post horse, post-horse, ponies, packhorse, led horse, pony-trekking, pack horse, pit pony, more...

Opposite:
snail mail, regular mail, postal service

Adjectives:
livery, coachy, dicky, liveried, hackney, horse-drawn, dilly, bandy, horsedrawn, draft, sulky



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