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Walcott

[wawl-kuht, -kot]

noun

  1. Derek, 1930–2017, West Indian poet and playwright: Nobel Prize 1992.

  2. Joe Arnold CreamJersey Joe, 1914–94, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1951–52.



Walcott

/ ˈɔːə /

noun

  1. Derek ( Alton ). born 1930, St Lucian poet and playwright, whose works include the poetry collections In a Green Night (1962) and The Bounty (1997), the play The Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967), and the long poem Omeros (1990): Nobel prize for literature 1992

  2. Jersey Joe, real name Arnold Raymond Cream. 1914–94, US boxer: world heavyweight champion 1951–52

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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A new study has found it has already prevented £3m of flood damage in the villages of Bacton and Walcott.

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In 2018, the future of the village of Walcott hung in the balance.

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"Mikel Arteta has built this Arsenal team from his mind and his connections with each individual talent in that team, and he's built them to be one mind," said Walcott.

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Dwane Walcott’s “Mitch,” as he is known to friends, has a diffidence that in Blanche’s eyes makes him seem almost gentlemanly among Stanley’s boorish friends.

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Walcott doesn’t play Mitch as a slab of granite.

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