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Port Adelaide

British  

noun

  1. the chief port of South Australia, near Adelaide on St Vincent Gulf. Pop: 33 145 (2006)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I stole it from Australian rules football, my team back here, Port Adelaide, 20 years ago.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2017

“My favorite footy word is speccie,” says Chen Shaoliang, recruited by the Port Adelaide Football Club academy in March and poster child for the sport in China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 12, 2016

The Australians intend not to site the ship in Adelaide, but in Port Adelaide, some distance away and with little or nothing to offer tourists.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2012

That was a tough tour but I'd always loved playing there, because I played grade cricket for Port Adelaide the year before my first Ashes tour in 1986.

From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2010

Now you must travel by steamer to Port Adelaide, for Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.

From Peeps At Many Lands: Australia by Spence, Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton)

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