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Kick 'em Jenny

Kick 'em Jenny proper noun: an active submarine volcano on the Caribbean Sea floor, located 8 km (5 mi) north of the island of Grenada, or the strait where it lies.

Proper noun

Kick 'em Jenny

  1. An active submarine volcano on the Caribbean Sea floor, located 8 km (5 mi) north of the island of Grenada, or the strait where it lies.
    • Even then, if she cannot lie S.E.b.S. at least, her reaching them will be very doubtful, and her best way will be to go through the passage between Kick-'em-Jenny and Carriacou, in order to weather Grenada before she gets into the strong lee current which prevails between that island and Trinidad...1841, The Nautical Magazine, volume 10, page 601
    • The 12 submarine eruptions from Kick 'em Jenny are believed to have been dominantly explosive, although in at least one case a lava dome was extruded.2009, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Encyclopedia of Islands, page 34

Origin of Kick 'em Jenny

Applied to the volcano after it erupted in the 1930s; the name was previously used for the small islet nearby (now called Diamond Rock) and the waters around it, where the volcano is located, perhaps in reference to their roughness.

Questions about Kick 'em Jenny

What does Kick 'em Jenny mean?
Kick 'em Jenny means an active submarine volcano on the Caribbean Sea floor, located 8 km (5 mi) north of the island of Grenada, or the strait where it lies.
What part of speech is Kick 'em Jenny?
Kick 'em Jenny is a proper noun.

Words near Kick 'em Jenny in the dictionary

  1. Kichua
  2. Kichuas
  3. Kichwa
  4. Kicinski
  5. kick
  6. Kick 'em Jenny
  7. kick a dog when it's down
  8. kick about
  9. kick against
  10. kick against the pricks
  11. kick and buck

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