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Morgan City

American  

noun

  1. a city in S Louisiana: headquarters for offshore oil drilling and base for shrimp fleet.


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Pratt flew home to Morgan City, La., “to see my mama and my homefolks,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025

The crash was reported Wednesday evening south of Morgan City.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022

Swiger joined Exxon in 1978 as an operations engineer in Morgan City, Louisiana and was elected senior vice president and a member of the management committee in 2009.

From Reuters • Jul. 19, 2021

A hurricane warning was in effect for a stretch of coast from Morgan City, La., to the Mississippi-Alabama border.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2020

I dogged it on through La Fayette and Morgan City and came in the early dawn to Houma, which is pronounced Homer and is in my memory one of the pleasantest places in the world.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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