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left coast

left coast proper noun: the West Coast of the United States.

Proper noun

left coast

  1. (slang) The West Coast of the United States.

Origin of left coast

From left + coast; from the reputation of the West Coast as politically left-wing and its location.

Questions about left coast

What does left coast mean?
Left coast means the West Coast of the United States.
What part of speech is left coast?
Left coast is a proper noun.

Words near left coast in the dictionary

  1. left bowers
  2. left bracket
  3. left brackets
  4. left brain
  5. left brains
  6. left coast
  7. left communism
  8. left communist
  9. left communists
  10. left coset
  11. left cosets

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