Dictionary

Boardwalk en · PROPN

Etymology

Properties named after streets in Atlantic City

Meanings

1. A board game space and the most expensive real estate property in the predominant U.S. form of Monopoly.
   • When you’re dating you are rolling the dice. Most people hope their dice helps them land on Boardwalk. 2016 December 9, Roosevelt Wright III, Intermission, When One Season Ends A New One Begins, Unboxed Possibilities, unpaged
   • So go make a Jenga tower, build hotels on Boardwalk, beef up your vocabulary with Scrabble[…], fall down in Twister, say you’re Sorry!, sink a battleship, put someone in check, and see what Colonel Mustard is up to in the library! 2006, Sacha Zimmerman, For America: Simple Things Each of Us Can Do to Make Our Country Better, Reader's Digest Association, →ISBN, page 34:
   • Stopping at vegetarianism or a particular form of meditation is like hanging out on Boardwalk and forgetting to pass “Go.” 1993, Alan Cohen, The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Fawcett Columbine,, →ISBN, page 71:
   • “Do not stop at Boardwalk. Pass Go and head directly for the airport. Swiss Air flight forty-one. I’ll explain once we’re on board!” 1989, Susan Hufford, Miracles, Dutton, page 46:
   • You kids don’t appreciate Boardwalk and Park Place because you never had to work for them. 1968, Art Buchwald, Have I ever lied to you?, volume 85, Putnam, page 128:
   • He had to pay rent for Boardwalk twice while playing Monopoly.
2. (broadly) Atlantic City itself.