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horse armor

horse armor noun: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see horse, armor.; armor worn by a horse.

Noun

horse armor (plural horse armors)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see horse, armor.; armor worn by a horse.
  2. (Internet, derogatory, humorous, idiomatic) A piece of downloadable content or microtransaction for a video game, especially one purely cosmetic and considered being of bad value.

Forms of horse armor

pluralhorse armors

Origin of horse armor

In reference to Bethesda Game Studios' 2006 RPG, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which notoriously offered horse armor as a paid piece of DLC.

Questions about horse armor

What does horse armor mean?
Horse armor means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see horse, armor.; armor worn by a horse.
What part of speech is horse armor?
Horse armor is a noun.
What is the plural of horse armor?
The plural of horse armor is horse armors.

Words near horse armor in the dictionary

  1. horse ants
  2. horse apple
  3. horse apples
  4. horse archer
  5. horse archers
  6. horse armor
  7. horse around
  8. horse artilleries
  9. horse artillery
  10. horse bean
  11. horse beans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horse armor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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