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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)

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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

Port Adelaide, a bar harbour, is about nine miles from Glenelg, and situate on the eastern bank of a large creek, penetrating the mangrove swamp by which the shore of the Gulf is thereabouts fringed.

From Expedition into Central Australia by Sturt, Charles