Boardwalkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Boardwalk

1. A board game space and the most expensive real estate property in the predominant U.S. form of Monopoly.

   He had to pay rent for Boardwalk twice while playing 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 them land on Boardwalk.

2. (by extension) Atlantic City itself.

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