Bakerloo

//beɪkɚˈlu// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Bakerloo Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway.

    "It was the Evening News, I know, which had a competition for naming one of the Tube lines. Hence our Bakerloo."

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"It was the Evening News, I know, which had a competition for naming one of the Tube lines. Hence our Bakerloo."

Etymology

Blend of Baker Street + Waterloo.

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