Tampico
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5.2
- proper noun
- What a town, Tampico.
Examples
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Say, how long you guys been around Tampico, anyway?
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Dobbs first meets Curtin on a park bench in Tampico, each jobless and desperate, and they meet again on the work gang that McCormick recruits to rig an oil camp.
Academic text (2002) -
I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914.
Blog text (25) -
One thing, living in the open is cheaper than it is here in Tampico.
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We ain't very smart, hanging around Tampico waiting for a job.
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One son will briefly come home from a mission in Tampico, Mexico, and another will return from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Blog text (8) -
Although Cook is based at Weslaco, he often works at Las Huestecas, near Tampico on Mexico's eastern coast.
Academic text (1995) -
Several generations of Mexican nationalists feared a new invasion with similar consequences, as seemed to occur in April 1914 with the occupation of the port cities of Veracruz and Tampico by American fleets.
Academic text (2017) -
He'll negotiate so they don't hurt innocents," Martha Trejo, 37, a PRI supporter from the Gulf coast city of Tampico, said at Sunday's victory rally.
Blog text (17) -
WHERE: A couple of hours from Tampico, Mexico.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Tampico comes from a local Indigenous language and is said to mean 'place of otters', a simple picture of animals living by the water. That meaning fits the city today, because Tampico is a busy port by the Gulf of Mexico.