Broadway

  1. Proper noun.  A street name found in a number of anglophone settlements, typically referring to a wide road; a broad way.
  2. Proper noun.  A settlement which grew up around such a road, eg. Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.
  3. Proper noun.  Notably, in the Borough of Manhattan, in New York City, a wide road cutting a lazy diagonal through the mostly rigid grid-system.
  4. Proper noun.  The theater district of Manhattan; specifically, those theaters (most of which are actually not fronting on Broadway) covered by contracts between the theater owners and the theatrical unions.
  5. Proper noun.  The American theater industry.
  6. Noun.  (poker slang) The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.
  7. Adjective.  (by extension, _) Flashy; showy.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.