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cow college (countable and uncountable, plural cow colleges)

  1. (slang, derogatory) An agricultural university or college.
    • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
      He thought he had read someplace (perhaps in one of his classes at the University of Maine at Farmington, a cow college from which he had graduated with absolutely no honors at all) that a severe shock to the nervous system sometimes had that very effect []

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