lamppost
Americannoun
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lampposts
plural
noun
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Origin of lamppost
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Smacking his head on a lamppost while chasing one woman and ogling another, Damien is transported to a parallel universe in which women don’t just run the world, the nature of the sexes has flipped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
A vertical lamppost splits the scene roughly into halves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
Mr Salmon, from London, said that after being evacuated he initially mistook the helicopter's rotor blade for a lamppost.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024
There are no complex permitting requirements, and a lamppost can be complemented with an EV charger within an hour.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2024
An agent ran out to check the lamppost on Kutuzovsky Prospekt.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Now a UK firm is betting on data centres using thousands of connected smart lampposts, and has signed a formal agreement with a Nigerian state to deploy 50,000 of them.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
Their faces are pasted on walls and lampposts across Mexico, and demonstrators regularly hoist banners demanding the return of loved ones whose names are memorialized in chants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
Social media videos from the day showed people on top of lampposts, roofs of bus shelters, as well as on scaffolding - particularly on a prominent building on The Strand.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
Posters emblazoned with their faces adorned lampposts across the city.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
Between these lampposts my shadow on the winter snow would stretch ahead of me, double, shrink again and disappear, the lamps casting their haloes around them like the moon in fog.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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