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Mornington Crescent

Mornington Crescent proper noun: a fictional game of complicated strategy in which players move around a map of the London Underground.

Proper noun

Mornington Crescent

  1. A fictional game of complicated strategy in which players move around a map of the London Underground.

Origin of Mornington Crescent

Coined in 1978 on the BBC Radio 4 programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, after the London Underground station of the same name.

Questions about Mornington Crescent

What does Mornington Crescent mean?
Mornington Crescent means a fictional game of complicated strategy in which players move around a map of the London Underground.
What part of speech is Mornington Crescent?
Mornington Crescent is a proper noun.

Words near Mornington Crescent in the dictionary

  1. morningstars
  2. Morningthorpe
  3. Morningthorpe and Fritton
  4. morningtide
  5. Mornington
  6. Mornington Crescent
  7. Mornington Peninsula
  8. morningward
  9. mornless
  10. mornlike
  11. morns

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