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gangplank

[gang-plangk] / ˈgæŋˌplæŋk /


NOUN
gangway
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Jack said he watched me until my feet disappeared over the gangplank

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

As the Canberra repatriated the PoWs to Puerto Madryn - the Welsh-speaking enclave of Argentina - in July 1982, a Navy photographer captured Irfon and Giorgio sharing a heartfelt goodbye handshake on the gangplank.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2022

They got him to sick bay early that evening, she said, and soon after wheeled him down the gangplank.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2020

If the Nats walk out to the end of the gangplank — game after game — in this World Series, will you still be around to see who wins the final game?

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2019

Then the gangplank was lowered and my father bounded on the deck in his white panama hat and his white duck suit.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz




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