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Start en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

The verb start, with initial uppercase letter.

Meanings

1. A typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option.

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Start en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

Topographic surname, from Old English steort (“tail, promontory”).

Meanings

1. A surname from Old English.

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Start en · PROPN · etymology 3

Meanings

1. (UK, obsolete, slang) The city of London, England.
   • It is true that certain kinds of documents, especially sham hawkers’ licenses, may be had in the provinces, at prices suited to the importance of their contents, or to the probable gains of their circulation; but all the ‘regular bang-up fakes’ are manufactured in the ‘Start’ (metropolis), and sent into the country to order, carefully packed up, and free from observation. 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

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