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Foggy Bottom

Foggy Bottom proper noun: a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.

Proper noun

Foggy Bottom

  1. A neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
  2. (US, metonymically) The United States Department of State, whose headquarters are located nearby.
    • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked boldly about smart power projection, but by the time she left Foggy Bottom, she was still stuck deploying the same meager, smart power tools that she inherited.2019 October 7, Chris Murphy, “How to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work”, in The Atlantic

Origin of Foggy Bottom

Perhaps in reference to the smoke from industrial facilities.

Questions about Foggy Bottom

What does Foggy Bottom mean?
Foggy Bottom means a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
What part of speech is Foggy Bottom?
Foggy Bottom is a proper noun.

Words near Foggy Bottom in the dictionary

  1. fogging up
  2. foggings
  3. foggish
  4. foggite
  5. foggy
  6. Foggy Bottom
  7. foghorn
  8. foghorned
  9. foghorning
  10. foghorns
  11. fogie

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