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Grit City

Grit City proper noun: tacoma (a city in Washington, United States).

Proper noun

Grit City

  1. (informal) Tacoma (a city in Washington, United States).
    • Both literally and figuratively, the city has cleaned up without sacrificing the edge that inspired its locally embraced nickname of “Grit City.”2024 June 23, Corinne Whiting, “The dazzling sides of ‘Grit City’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024

Questions about Grit City

What does Grit City mean?
Grit City means tacoma (a city in Washington, United States).
What part of speech is Grit City?
Grit City is a proper noun.

Words near Grit City in the dictionary

  1. Griswood
  2. grisy
  3. grit
  4. grit cell
  5. grit cells
  6. Grit City
  7. grit one's teeth
  8. gritch
  9. gritched
  10. gritches
  11. gritching

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