Tacoma

[ tuh-koh-muh ]

/ təˈkoʊ mə /

noun

a seaport in W Washington, on Puget Sound.

Mount. Rainier, Mount.

Related formsTa·co·man, noun

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Examples from the Web for tacoma

Coplin had been working since March as a $25,000-a-year claims rep with State Farm Insurance in nearby Tacoma.
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He met a man in the Air Force named Ron Soden, who now lives in Tacoma, Wash., and spoke to The Daily Beast by telephone.
Child-Murder Arrest After 53 Years|Winston Ross|August 6, 2011|DAILY BEAST
McCullough had started a modeling agency in Tacoma, and he wanted Soden to start a talent agency in conjunction with the business.
Child-Murder Arrest After 53 Years|Winston Ross|August 6, 2011|DAILY BEAST
I see no way out of it now except to send another captain to Tacoma.
Cappy Ricks|Peter B. Kyne

Tacoma offered no privileges for the destitute out-of-work man.
Broke|Edwin A. Brown
The exact relation in which Tacoma stands to Annancy is obscure.
Jamaican Song and Story|Walter Jekyll
At Tacoma we had very comfortable quarters at the Carlton House.
Sixty Years of California Song|Margaret Blake-Alverson
In Seattle, Tacoma and many other towns, union halls and print shops were raided and their contents destroyed or burned.
The Centralia Conspiracy|Ralph Chaplin

British Dictionary definitions for tacoma

Tacoma

/ (təˈkəʊmə) /

noun

a port in W Washington, on Puget Sound: industrial centre. Pop: 196 790 (2003 est)

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