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Bronx

[ brongks ]

noun

  1. the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
  2. a cocktail of gin, sweet and dry vermouth, and orange juice.


Bronx

/ brɒŋks /

noun

  1. the Bronx
    a 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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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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