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A public utility that provides water
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waterworks
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Waterworks is a card game created by Parker Brothers in 1972. The game pieces consist of a deck of 110 pipe cards, 1 bathtub-shaped card tray, and 10 small metal wrenches . The object is for each player to create a pipeline of a designated length, beginning ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Aliens do not steer themselves through space guided by the village waterworks . ▪ Before Reagan turned on the waterworks , crying in public was widely considered a sign of weakness. ▪ In the name of self-help, the Masai were ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from water (n.1) + work (n.).
Usage examples of waterworks.
Allegheny Water Authority treatment plant is on the Allegheny, right next to the Waterworks Mall.
Shit, I could always turn the waterworks on so easily as a kid, win my aunties round, and get a packet of crisps.
I went to schools, hospitals, lunatic asylums, institutes for deaf and dumb, waterworks, historical societies, telegraph offices, and large commercial establishments.
He gestured around at the bright dusty day and the clangour of Khalid's shop, the mills, the waterworks powering the big blast furnaces, the noise and movement.
I rent a couple of rooms there for the business, in the same building as the Rural District Council, and the Waterworks Company.
Munford’s artillery command post at Brigade headquarters in a waterworks building near the bridge.
Seemingly obedient, though, to the verdicts of her psychiatric report, Miss Didion writes about everything with the same doom-conscious yet faintly abstract intensity of interest, whether remarking on the dress sense of one of Manson's henchwomen, or indulging her curious obsession with Californian waterworks.
This alienated Mali- He needed a mother, not a waterworks utility like the one on the Monopoly board.
You don't look like her and know how to turn the waterworks on and off without knowing how to keep your mascara from running too.