Bronx
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- proper noun
- /brɒŋks/
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Bronx
- City Island, located in the Bronx, offers a quaint seaside village experience.
- South Bronx
- Bronx, New York
- Brooklyn and the Bronx
OK, you're from East Bronx Academy for the future, correct?
- OK, you're from East Bronx Academy for the future, correct?
- And now he's beefing with fucking Bronx's own Cardi B.
- She lived in the South Bronx, and her income was decidedly lesser than almost any other member of the family.
- David Spiegel, who you've had here, Rachel Yehuda, the Bronx VA looking at PTSD in adults.
- He equated them to, to the Bronx or Compton or South side of Chicago.
- He wished to build the Cross Bronx Expressway.
- They're all out in Queens now, Bronx, Fat Joe Country.
- Now see, that's when Stephen A now that that Bronx, that Queens dude comes out.
Examples
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I'm from the Bronx, and it's 4:00 in the morning.
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I grew up in the Bronx.
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So we both taught in the Bronx at the same new school.
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You know, when we lived in the Bronx at least we had family.
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What are you, from the Bronx?
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In the Bronx we had mice.
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He grew up in the Bronx and graduated from the High School of Music and Art.
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I grew up in the South Bronx in a sixth-floor walk-up.
Fiction book (1991) -
The break-dancers are break-dancing up in the Bronx.
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Charles Redder from the Bronx was mugged in Hyde Park.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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A part of New York City with many different communities and a strong local culture
Compounds
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A part of New York City with many different communities and a strong local culture
- Offensive
A rude loud sound made by blowing through closed lips to show you do not like something
A bridge held by cables over the East River connecting the Bronx and Queens
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bronx comes from the name of an early settler, Bronck (Jonas Bronck), who lived by the river now called the Bronx River. People called the area 'Bronck's' place, which turned into 'the Bronx', so this part of New York City keeps his name today.