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Phillies

Phillies is the plural of Philly.

Meaning of Philly

Proper noun

Philly

  1. (informal) Philadelphia.
    • Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night / And they blew up his house, too1982, Bruce Springsteen, “Atlantic City”, in Nebraska
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Philippa.

Questions about Phillies

What is Phillies the plural of?
Phillies is the plural of Philly.

Words near Phillies in the dictionary

  1. Philleys
  2. phillibeg
  3. phillibegs
  4. Phillida
  5. Phillie
  6. Phillies
  7. phillilew
  8. philliloo
  9. philliloos
  10. Phillimore
  11. Phillip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Phillies (page history and authors); Philly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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