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Rock
noun
▶ the Rock- Gibraltar UK, 1829
From Gibraltar’s main feature. - [A] referendum on the Rock showed 99% of voters opposed joint sovereignty with Madrid. — The Guardian, 9 November 2002
- Guam US
A nickname used by US military pilots during the Vietnamese war. - — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 210, 1990
- the island of Newfoundland CANADA, 2001
This term, almost universal in use in both Newfoundland and the rest of Canada, derives from the stony soil of the island.
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