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Bronx
[ brongks ]
noun
- the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- a cocktail of gin, sweet and dry vermouth, and orange juice.
Bronx
/ brɒŋks /
noun
- the Bronxa borough of New York City, on the mainland, separated from Manhattan by the Harlem River. Pop: 1 363 198 (2003 est)
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- Bronxite noun
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Example Sentences
“We saw his background and he was a Bronx guy and we started breaking the case,” Boyce says.
Then came Bess Myerson, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who was raised in the Sholem Aleichem Houses in the Bronx.
Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.
“You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.
But that would now have to be put on hold because he had been shot in the Bronx.
I had constructed a cage made of osiers, in which my auks were to squat until they arrived at Bronx Park.
Now, in the guise of a perfectly human and genial old gentleman, I scarcely recognized my superior of the Bronx Park society.
Wandering over to the bar alone he had two Martinis and then a Bronx but nothing seemed to happen.
And sure enough Aunt Polly had prepared a jug of delicious Bronx cocktails which all pronounced excellent.
He is a very young officer to be put in charge of a steamer, for I understand that he is ordered 61 to the command of the Bronx.
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