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Piccadilly Circus

American  

noun

  1. a traffic circle and open square in W London, England: theater and amusement center.


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On an underground train en route to Piccadilly Circus, I got the picture after spotting a newspaper headline.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

The main parade is scheduled to start at 12:00 BST and finish at 18:00, running from Hyde Park Corner, through Piccadilly Circus, down Haymarket along Cockspur to Trafalgar Square, culminating at Whitehall Place.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2025

At the time, he worked at the kitschy Rainforest Café in Piccadilly Circus — a now-defunct theme restaurant with animatronic animals — to help pay for his tuition.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 2024

They were there to see a short art film, “Nadya Means Hope,” in which Ms. Tolokonnikova burns a candle in the shape of an eggplant emoji, play on an enormous screen in Piccadilly Circus.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 2024

Sometimes when Dad asks Mum how work was, she says the ward was like Piccadilly Circus.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

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