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Outer Banks

Outer Banks proper noun: a long string of narrow barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.

Proper noun

Outer Banks

  1. A long string of narrow barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.
    • Even the Outer Banks' best known landmark, the old Cape Hatteras Light with its distinctive black and white spirals, almost collapsed into the sea a few years back[…]1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 512
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    OBX

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Questions about Outer Banks

What does Outer Banks mean?
Outer Banks means a long string of narrow barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.
What part of speech is Outer Banks?
Outer Banks is a proper noun.

Words near Outer Banks in the dictionary

  1. outer arms
  2. outer automorphism
  3. outer automorphisms
  4. Outer Banker
  5. Outer Bankers
  6. Outer Banks
  7. outer bar
  8. outer borough
  9. outer boroughs
  10. Outer Brass
  11. outer class

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