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Manteca

Manteca proper noun: a city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.

Proper noun

Manteca

  1. A city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
    • “I am completely disgusted in sharing with you that, later yesterday evening, I received a call from the Manteca PD that the suspect in this horrific crime turns out to (be) my 18-year-old son,” McAllister wrote in a note on the police department’s Facebook page on Wednesday.2018 August 10, Dakin Andone, “After brutal attack on a Sikh man, police chief is ‘disgusted’ to learn his son is one of the suspects”, in CNN, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2018

Origin of Manteca

Borrowed from Spanish manteca.

Questions about Manteca

What does Manteca mean?
Manteca means a city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
What part of speech is Manteca?
Manteca is a proper noun.

Words near Manteca in the dictionary

  1. Mantchoos
  2. Mantchou
  3. manteau
  4. manteaus
  5. manteaux
  6. Manteca
  7. Mantecan
  8. Mantecans
  9. mantegar
  10. mantegars
  11. Mantegnesque

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