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Sandy Hook

Sandy Hook proper noun: a spit (landform) on the coast of New Jersey, United States.

sandy hook: a spit (landform) on the coast of New Jersey, United States
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Proper noun

Sandy Hook

  1. A spit (landform) on the coast of New Jersey, United States.
  2. A village in the town of Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
    1. (metonymically) The school shooting that took place there on December 14, 2012.
      • The debt is fictional, the families’ lawyers said in Thursday’s filing, and “a centerpiece of Jones’s plan to avoid compensating the Sandy Hook families.”2022 August 25, Elizabeth Williamson, “Alex Jones Accused of Hiding Assets From Sandy Hook Families”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2022
  3. An unincorporated community in Daviess County, Indiana, United States.
  4. A small city, the county seat of Elliott County, Kentucky, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Mississippi, United States.
  7. An unincorporated community in Moniteau County, Missouri, United States.
  8. An unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, United States.
  9. A census-designated place in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States.
  10. A neighbourhood of Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada.

Origin of Sandy Hook

The name of the spit on the coast of New Jersey is a proprialization from sandy hook. The names of the other places may be similar proprializations (in some cases), namesakes of another so-named place (in other cases), or otherwise.

Questions about Sandy Hook

What does Sandy Hook mean?
Sandy Hook means a spit (landform) on the coast of New Jersey, United States.
What part of speech is Sandy Hook?
Sandy Hook is a proper noun.

Words near Sandy Hook in the dictionary

  1. Sandy Crossing
  2. Sandy Flat
  3. Sandy Gully
  4. Sandy Hill
  5. Sandy Hollow
  6. Sandy Hook
  7. Sandy Island
  8. Sandy Lane
  9. sandy laverock
  10. sandy laverocks
  11. Sandy Point

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Sandy Hook (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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