Canaries
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editthe Canaries pl (plural only)
- (informal) The Canary Islands.
- (UK) Nickname of Norwich City Football Club.
- 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign.
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editCanaries f pl (plural only)
- The Canary Islands (an archipelago and autonomous community of Spain)
- Synonym: îles Canaries
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