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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

One outside Fort Worth built a gangplank 22 feet above an arcade floor — walk it if you dare.

From New York Times May 31, 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

“No,” he said, “she walked down the gangplank with page boys and trumpets.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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