Dodge City

Dodge City
Dodge Cit|y
a city in the US state of Kansas. In the 19th century, Dodge City was a place where many people came to drink and play cards for money, and there was a lot of fighting and shooting. People sometimes use the name Dodge City to talk about a place where there is a lot of fighting and there seems to be no law
▪ As the drug dealers and armed gangs moved in, the neighborhood began to look like Dodge City.

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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  • Dodge City — Lage in Kansas Basisdaten Gründung: 1872 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Dodge City — Dodge City, AL U.S. town in Alabama Population (2000): 612 Housing Units (2000): 253 Land area (2000): 3.143820 sq. miles (8.142455 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.143820 sq. miles (8.142455 sq …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Dodge City, KS — U.S. city in Kansas Population (2000): 25176 Housing Units (2000): 8976 Land area (2000): 12.614372 sq. miles (32.671071 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.105164 sq. miles (0.272374 sq. km) Total area (2000): 12.719536 sq. miles (32.943445 sq. km)… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Dodge City, AL — U.S. town in Alabama Population (2000): 612 Housing Units (2000): 253 Land area (2000): 3.143820 sq. miles (8.142455 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.143820 sq. miles (8.142455 sq. km) FIPS code …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Dodge City — [? after Col. Richard I. Dodge, prominent city official] city in SW Kans., on the Arkansas River: famous as a frontier town on the Santa Fe Trail: pop. 25,000 …   English World dictionary

  • Dodge City —   [ dɔdʒ sɪtɪ], Stadt im SW von Kansas, USA, am alten Santa Fe Trail. D. C. entstand in der Nähe des 1864 gegr. Fort Dodge seit 1871/72; hierher trieb man bis Mitte der 1880er Jahre riesige Viehherden von Texas zum Abtransport mit der Eisenbahn.… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Dodge City — a place where there is a lot of fighting and not enough control by the police …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Dodge City — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Dodge (homonymie). 37° 45′ 35″ N 100° 01′ 06″ W …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Dodge City — a city in SW Kansas, on the Arkansas River: important frontier town and railhead on the old Santa Fe route. 18,001. * * * ▪ Kansas, United States       city, seat (1873) of Ford county, southwestern Kansas, U.S., on the Arkansas River. Fort Dodge …   Universalium

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