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Boardwalk
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boardwalk
English
Etymology
Properties named after streets in Atlantic City
Proper noun
A board game space and the most expensive real estate property in the predominant U.S. form of Monopoly.
en He had to pay rent for Boardwalk twice while playing Monopoly.
en 1968 Art Buchwald Have I ever lied to you? Putnam 85 128 You kids don’t appreciate Boardwalk and Park Place because you never had to work for them.
en 1989 Susan Hufford Miracles Dutton 46 “Do not stop at Boardwalk. Pass Go and head directly for the airport. Swiss Air flight forty-one. I’ll explain once we’re on board!”
en 1993 Alan Cohen The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore Fawcett Columbine, 0449908402 71 Stopping at vegetarianism or a particular form of meditation is like hanging out on Boardwalk and forgetting to pass “Go.”
en 2006 Sacha Zimmerman For America: Simple Things Each of Us Can Do to Make Our Country Better 34 Reader's Digest Association 0762108290 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!
2016 December 9, Roosevelt Wright III, Intermission, When One Season Ends A New One Begins, Unboxed Possibilities, unpaged:
When you’re dating you are rolling the dice. Most people hope their dice helps them land on Boardwalk.
en by extension Atlantic City itself.
Anagrams
en aabdklorw walkboard
en Monopoly