Fort Knox

American  

noun

1. a military reservation in N Kentucky, SSW of Louisville: location of U.S. federal gold depository since 1936.

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Fort Knox British  

/ nɒks /

noun

1. a military reservation in N Kentucky: site of the US Gold Bullion Depository. Pop: 12 377 (2000)

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Example Sentences

“Actually getting in there, it was like getting into Fort Knox, quite frankly,” said Steve Brass, a recent inductee.

From The Wall Street Journal

The best teams in NBA history, it’s no surprise, are net rating monsters, combining cutthroat scoring attacks with defenses as solid as Fort Knox.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It really is like Fort Knox," he said.

From BBC

“It was like Fort Knox,” Williams said.

From The Wall Street Journal

A working gold toilet seems a much better use of bullion than, say, making it into bars and then just having it sit, useless, in vaults in Fort Knox.

From MarketWatch

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