Usually means: Unexpected contender with surprising success.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word dark horse:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. dark horse: Merriam-Webster
  2. dark horse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dark horse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dark horse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dark horse: Vocabulary.com
  6. dark-horse: Wordnik
  7. dark horse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dark horse: Wiktionary
  9. dark-horse, dark horse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dark horse: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. dark horse: Dictionary.com
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  13. dark horse: Rhymezone
  14. Dark Horse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. dark horse: FreeDictionary.org
  16. dark horse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Dark Horse: The Word Detective
  18. dark horse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Dark horse: Phrase Finder
  20. dark horse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dark-horse, Dark horse (disambiguation), dark horse: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. dark horse: Idioms
  3. dark horse: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dark horse)

noun:  (idiomatic) Someone who possesses talents or favorable characteristics that are not known or expected by others.
noun:  (idiomatic, politics) A candidate for an election who is nominated unexpectedly, without previously having been discussed or considered as a likely choice.
noun:  (horse racing) A horse whose capabilities are not known.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, horse.

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