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Hampstead

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An affluent suburban area in the borough of Camden, London, England (OS grid ref TQ2685).
  2. 2
    A parish and community therein, in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.
  3. 3
    A suburb and municipality in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  4. 4
    A town in Carroll County, Maryland.
  5. 5
    A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
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  1. 6
    A census-designated place in Pender County, North Carolina.
  2. 7
    A village in Saint Andrew parish, Dominica.
  3. 8
    A suburb of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Noun
  1. 1
    shortened form of Hampstead Heath: teeth (Cockney rhyming slang).

    "That geezer knocked out his bloody Hampsteads, he did!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old English hām (“homestead”) + stede (“place”). Doublet of Hempstead.

Etymology 2

From Hampstead Heath.

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