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california | tracy |

california

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A western coastal state of the United States of America. Capital: Sacramento.

    • Derived terms

    * CA * California holly * California poppy * California stop * Californian * Norcal * Socal

    See also

    *

    External links

    * (wikipedia "California") ----

    tracy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Tracey, Traci

    Proper noun

    (en-proper noun)
  • , occasional transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
  • popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • * 1985 , Snow White and Rose Red , page 130:
    • "That's her real name, you know. I mean, a lot of girls working the topless joints, they take exotic, sexy names...well, Tiffany Carter, for example...but that was the name Tracy was born with."
  • * 1993 Wayne C. Lee, Bad Men and Bad Towns , Caxton Press, ISBN 0870043498, page 144:
    • Her name was Theresa (often Tracy ) Oldenburg and she had eyes only for another young man, Richard Puls.
  • A city in California.
  • A city in Minnesota.
  • A city in Missouri.
  • A village in New Brunswick, Canada.

    • Derived terms

    * Tracyton

    Quotations

    * 1921 , Indiscretions of Archie , page 162: *: "What's the first name?" - - - "I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!" "Good God!" said Archie. "It couldn't really be that, could it?" Archie looked grave. He hated to to give pain, but he felt he must be honest. "It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy . And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker." English unisex given names