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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A large neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York, New York that was the site of Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vlacke (“flat”) bos (“woods”).

Related phrases

brooklyn dodgersebbets field

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