Meaning of Queens | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A borough of New York City, New York, United States, one of five, situated on Long Island, north of Brooklyn, west of Nassau County.
3. A pair of queens.
   slang
4. Ellipsis of Queens County: a county of New York, United States, which is coterminous with the borough of Queens.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

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Examples

“Though he was not the only New Yorker on the bench, he was the only spoiled-rotten Italian kid brought up proud and scrapping in Queens and familiar with rude Sicilian gestures.”

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