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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"iced gin drink served in a tall glass" (called a Collins glass), 1940, American English; earlier Tom Collins (by 1878), of uncertain origin. Popular in early 1940s; bartending purists at the time denied it could be based on anything but gin. The surname (12c.) is from a masc. proper name, a diminutive of Col, itself a pet form of Nicholas.
Wiktionary
n. Any of various alcoholic drinks made with lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 304
Land area (2000): 1.028139 sq. miles (2.662867 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.001558 sq. miles (0.004034 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.029697 sq. miles (2.666901 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17832
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 32.178748 N, 82.109979 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30421
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Housing Units (2000): 222
Land area (2000): 0.492142 sq. miles (1.274643 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.492142 sq. miles (1.274643 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15195
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.902445 N, 93.307017 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50055
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Housing Units (2000): 1012
Land area (2000): 7.592492 sq. miles (19.664463 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.029746 sq. miles (0.077042 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.622238 sq. miles (19.741505 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15140
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 31.642276 N, 89.559403 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39428
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Housing Units (2000): 86
Land area (2000): 0.152511 sq. miles (0.395001 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.152511 sq. miles (0.395001 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15562
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.890068 N, 93.619731 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64738
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Wikipedia
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Collins is a tiny lunar impact crater located on the southern part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It is located about 25 kilometers to the north of the Apollo 11 landing site. Named after Michael Collins, the crater is the central member of the row of three craters named in honor of the Apollo 11 crew members. About 15 kilometers to the west-northwest is the landing site of the Surveyor 5 lunar probe.
This crater was previously identified as Sabine D before being renamed by the IAU. Sabine itself is to the west of Collins.
The surname Collins has a variety of likely origins in Britain and Ireland:
- Anglo-Saxon: A patronymic surname based on the name Colin, an English diminutive form of Nicholas. In England, Collins usually signified "son of Colin."
- Irish: "cuilein" = darling, a term of endearment applied to a whelp or young animal. The medieval surname was Ua Cuiléin, which has usually become Ó Coileáin today.
- Welsh: Collen = hazel, hazel grove.
Alternative spellings or related surnames include Collin, Colling, Coling, Collings, Colings, Collis, Coliss, Collen, and Collens. A great number of Welsh origin surnames share a similar etymology to English ones - Where in English names the forename of the patriarch is suffixed with 'SON' (as in Peterson, Richardson, Johnson) in Welsh names the 'SON' is simply the letter "S" (Phillips, Davies, Davis, Williams) and Collins may have been one of the surnames to have originated in this way.
The Domesday Book (compiled in 1086) was the first to document names in England and Wales and at this time only the upper classes were literate. During the time between this and the first census of 1801 names continually changed due to the illiterate nature of the British population. Indeed, the need to be able to complete such documents may be a key factor in the change to fixed spellings.
The earliest documented evidence of the name in England dates back as far as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries where several instances have been recorded. One Colinus de Andresia appears in the pipe rolls of Berkshire in 1191, while a Colinus is mentioned in Hartopp's Register of the Freeman of Leicester recorded in 1196. The name Colinc is also mentioned several times in the Domesday Book. The personal name Colin from which the surname derives has an even older history; Ceawlin, the king of the West Saxons, Caelin, a brother of St Chad, and the early Welsh saint, Kollen, all have names related to Colin. In Ireland, Collins is a genuinely indigenous Irish name; in fact, it is one of the most numerous surnames, ranked number 30.
Collins (dates unknown) was an English professional cricketer.
Collins (dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played for Surrey during the 1740s.
Collins was a Major League Baseball right fielder who played in one game for St. Louis Browns on September 12, .
Collins, whose first name is unknown, went hitless in two at bats, with two strikeouts.
Usage examples of "collins".
In 1857, an American named Collins came forward with a scheme for the formation of an Amur Railway Company, to lay a line from Irkutsk to Chita.
On July 9 the will was properly executed and signed by Dolley and three witnesses, including Eliza Collins Lee, who was in Washington.
Mr Collins: we may come up the foresheet half a fathom, if you please.
Pat Collins, and I drive for the Mercury Freighting Company, Dave Lyons will back me.
And then the footman said something to Collins in German that Girard did not understand.
More to the point is the Magnificat, Collins, if I were making your specious argument.
Jeff said, holding out his wrists so Collins could clearly see the marks on them.
First Royals since Lysander had been Major Collins in command of the Scouts in the Dales campaign, but the Regiment would remember him.
Niggeree and the pearl-shells of Collins, and exchanged the provisions which they require for their coming cruise, so that in the transfer, many oaths have been uttered, if not registered amongst the representatives of western culture, and much chattering and skurrying amongst the dusky children of uncultivated Nature, who, with their canoes and the dingies, are still passing between the steamers and the schooners.
In the entire gaggle of miscellaneous tools, the only thing that could handle the coupling on the radiator pipe was the Stillson that Grego Collins had taken.
Emmet Dalton, a militant Treatyite, might have given the actual orders for the shelling, but the instructions had to have come from Michael Collins.
Wilkie Collins may be said to be in this way a lesser Dickens and Anthony Trollope a lesser Thackeray.
I had brief but rewarding interviews with Mike Collins, a graceful writer about space, and the two elegant women astronauts Judith Resnick and Anna Fisher.
Johnson, President Eisenhower, Secretary Wilson, the astronauts Deke Slayton and Mike Collins, and the scientists Jack Eddy, John Houbolt and Carl Sagan, but they are not given fictitious roles or inflated speeches.
The Collinses will turn us out before he is cold in his grave, and if you are not kind to us, brother, I do not know what we shall do.