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Fresh Kills

Fresh Kills proper noun: a stream and freshwater estuary in the western portion of the New York City borough of Staten Island.

Proper noun

Fresh Kills

  1. A stream and freshwater estuary in the western portion of the New York City borough of Staten Island.

Origin of Fresh Kills

Equivalent to the English compound fresh + kills (“creeks”), but possibly a calque of Dutch [Term?].

Questions about Fresh Kills

What does Fresh Kills mean?
Fresh Kills means a stream and freshwater estuary in the western portion of the New York City borough of Staten Island.
What part of speech is Fresh Kills?
Fresh Kills is a proper noun.

Words near Fresh Kills in the dictionary

  1. fresh eyes
  2. fresh fucked fox in a forest fire
  3. fresh grad
  4. fresh hell
  5. fresh hells
  6. Fresh Kills
  7. fresh legs
  8. fresh lumpia
  9. fresh lumpias
  10. Fresh Meadows
  11. fresh meat

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