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An old favourite from the Douglas Adams stable, well-known to anyone familiar with Pants MC. The game of giving dictionary definitions to place names. Please define the place provided by the previous player, and then post one of your own.
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Old English term meaning the meeting place of sheep.

Sandbach

A small Welsh bricklayer's mate.

Borrowash

To recycle the bath water, ie putting multiple children in the same bath then using the water to wash the pots afterwards. Also a slang term used for those dodgy memebers of society that pinch ladies underware from washing lines!!

Laxey

The state of the "Ais Gill" (qv.) after six pints of Winter Warmer and a Dansak Madras.

Biblins
Multiple chins.

Pomerania

Australian fascination with all things British, verging on the obsessive.

Down Hatherley
Non-clinical depression, Yorkshire style, as in " . . .tha's lookin reet Down 'Atherley". There's been some good stuff here recently, ignoring this one. :-)

Sole Street

A thoroughfare in which most businesses are shoe markers or shoe repairers.

Cobblers

Support band for Blur Folkstone
Sorry - (one day I shall leave HTMHell)

Folkstone
The average pitch of the human voice.

Stroud

A noisy walking movement

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch
Medical term: speech impediment.

Pontefract

A bridge that has become unsuitable for HGVs ever since one tried to drive over it.

Wenlock Edge

A nervious time at my local pub Wenlock Arms [Sir Henry] Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch is one word, no hyphen.

Crowlands

The secret stash of nasal crumblies (Crows/Bogies) that children often collect under school-desks when a sleeve or handkerchief is not to hand!!

Bolton

Attached by a mechanical device

[Major Dennis]'tis on the railway sign!

Wirral
A squirrel with a heavy cold.

[Sir Henry] It may be now, but my 3d (3 old pence) "Souvenir Platform Ticket" (148mm x 50mm) has it as one word. Also I seem to remember that the Guiness Book of Records, (Longest place name in the UK,) has it as one word.

Liskeard

Adj., descriptive of a beard that is impregnated with saliva, food, and drink, due to its impractical voluminousness and the messy eating habits of its wearer.

Gdansk

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