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Mutton Walk

Mutton Walk proper noun: the saloon at Drury Lane Theatre, once a popular gathering-place.

Proper noun

the Mutton Walk

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) The saloon at Drury Lane Theatre, once a popular gathering-place.
    • However this might be, the pain occasioned by the sudden movement of TALLYHO, who had not yet learned to trip it lightly along the mutton walk, induced the sufferer to roar out most lustily, […]1823, Pierce Egan, Real Life in London

Questions about Mutton Walk

What does Mutton Walk mean?
Mutton Walk means the saloon at Drury Lane Theatre, once a popular gathering-place.
What part of speech is Mutton Walk?
Mutton Walk is a proper noun.

Words near Mutton Walk in the dictionary

  1. mutton quads
  2. mutton shunter
  3. mutton shunters
  4. mutton snapper
  5. mutton snappers
  6. Mutton Walk
  7. mutton-chop whiskers
  8. mutton-fisted
  9. mutton-monger
  10. mutton-mongers
  11. mutton-thumper

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