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the other place

the other place noun: hell.

Noun

the other place

  1. (euphemistic) Hell
    • According to Christianity, when someone dies, they go to either Heaven or the other place.
  2. (parliamentary) the other house of a bicameral legislature (used by members of one house when speaking in their own house); in the UK, the House of Lords seen from the House of Commons or vice versa; in Canada, the Senate seen from the House of Commons or vice versa.
    • [W]e all trooped from our end of the building to the House of Lords - which I'm told, for some reason, we must never refer to by name. We have to call it 'another place' or 'the other place'[.]1999, Gyles Brandreth, chapter 3, in Breaking the Code
  3. (UK, derogatory, Oxford University slang) University of Cambridge
  4. (UK, derogatory, Cambridge University slang) University of Oxford

Questions about the other place

What does the other place mean?
The other place means hell.
What part of speech is the other place?
The other place is a noun.

Words near the other place in the dictionary

  1. the organ grinder, not the monkey
  2. the organ grinders, not the monkeys
  3. the organ-grinder, not the monkey
  4. the other body
  5. the other day
  6. the other place
  7. the other way
  8. the other way around
  9. the other way round
  10. the other white meat
  11. The Other Wiki

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