Wharfside
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The side of a wharf, where goods may be loaded and unloaded.
"Rather, on a dreary January afternoon, Dumbo resembles the set of “Blade Runner,” or some futuristic movie in which humans and robots and aliens with tentacles coming out of their foreheads hang out playing chess or shooting one another with purple lasers in a seamy wharfside bar."
Example
More examples"Rather, on a dreary January afternoon, Dumbo resembles the set of “Blade Runner,” or some futuristic movie in which humans and robots and aliens with tentacles coming out of their foreheads hang out playing chess or shooting one another with purple lasers in a seamy wharfside bar."
Etymology
From wharf + side.
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