"Boardwalk" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

Etymology: Properties named after streets in Atlantic City Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Boardwalk
  1. A board game space and the most expensive real estate property in the predominant U.S. form of Monopoly. Categories (topical): Monopoly
    Sense id: en-Boardwalk-en-name-ZSCwizfs Disambiguation of Monopoly: 83 17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 60 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 67 33
  2. (by extension) Atlantic City itself. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-Boardwalk-en-name-5PUUOsDI
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          "ref": "1968, Art Buchwald, Have I ever lied to you?, volume 85, Putnam, page 128:",
          "text": "You kids don’t appreciate Boardwalk and Park Place because you never had to work for them.",
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          "ref": "1989, Susan Hufford, Miracles, Dutton, page 46:",
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          "ref": "1993, Alan Cohen, The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Fawcett Columbine,, →ISBN, page 71:",
          "text": "Stopping at vegetarianism or a particular form of meditation is like hanging out on Boardwalk and forgetting to pass “Go.”",
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          "ref": "2006, Sacha Zimmerman, For America: Simple Things Each of Us Can Do to Make Our Country Better, Reader's Digest Association, →ISBN, page 34:",
          "text": "So go make a Jenga tower, build hotels on Boardwalk, beef up your vocabulary with Scrabble[…], fall down in Twister, say you’re Sorry!, sink a battleship, put someone in check, and see what Colonel Mustard is up to in the library!",
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          "ref": "2016 December 9, Roosevelt Wright III, Intermission, When One Season Ends A New One Begins, Unboxed Possibilities, unpaged",
          "text": "When you’re dating you are rolling the dice. Most people hope their dice helps them land on Boardwalk."
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