Boardwalk
See also: boardwalk
English edit
Etymology edit
Properties named after streets in Atlantic City
Proper noun edit
Boardwalk
- A board game space and the most expensive real estate property in the predominant U.S. form of Monopoly.
- 1968, Art Buchwald, Have I ever lied to you?, volume 85, Putnam, page 128:
- You kids don’t appreciate Boardwalk and Park Place because you never had to work for them.
- 1989, Susan Hufford, Miracles, Dutton, page 46:
- “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!”
- 1993, Alan Cohen, The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Fawcett Columbine,, →ISBN, page 71:
- Stopping at vegetarianism or a particular form of meditation is like hanging out on Boardwalk and forgetting to pass “Go.”
- 2006, Sacha Zimmerman, For America: Simple Things Each of Us Can Do to Make Our Country Better, Reader's Digest Association, →ISBN, page 34:
- 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!
- 2016 December 9, Roosevelt Wright III, Intermission, When One Season Ends A New One Begins, Unboxed Possibilities, unpaged:
- When you’re dating you are rolling the dice. Most people hope their dice helps[sic] them land on Boardwalk.
- (by extension) Atlantic City itself.