Isthmus of Suez

English

Proper noun

the Isthmus of Suez

1. The strip of land that lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, and is the boundary between the continents of Africa and Asia.
2. (UK, archaic, slang) The covered bridge at St. John's College, Cambridge, that connects the college with its grounds on the other side of the river.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary