frankfurt

plural frankfurts

1. AustraliaUSA frankfurter; a hot dog sausage.

   Sample of frankfurts procured from Stanley Kwiatkowski, Grand Rapids, Mich. Contains excessive amount of cereal.

   1919, Michigan Office of Dairy and Food Commissioner, Annual report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Michigan, volume 25, page 81

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   Frankfurts of the highest quality are prepared generally from a mixture of approximately half beef and half pork.

   1942, Robert Byron Hinman, Robert Bernard Harris, The Story of Meat, page 137

   As a kid in the 50s, (before we became infested with the current mish-mash of liquorice allsorts) pork fritz, devon, sliced ham, frankfurts, pork sausages...were all about as common a staple as you care to name. Even the Italians and Greeks of the time ate (and continue to eat) the stuff!!

   2003 June 10, smithxpj, “Ham banned in Broadmeadows”, in aus.consumers (Usenet)

   Synonyms: frank, frankfurter

alternative obsolete Francfort · alternative obsolete Frankfort

1. The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.

   Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters.

   2025 July 8, Zoe Sottile, “He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to”, in CNN, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2025

   1. metonymicallyThe German financial industry.

      The poor third-quarter results from Frankfurt had the broadest impact because they spotlighted the vulnerability of the listed German universal banks to the financial crisis spreading from Asia.

      1998, Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH Information Services, German Brief, volume 10

   2. metonymicallyThe European Central Bank.

      Despite this risk, little has happened in the six months since Frankfurt cut interest rates causing one to wonder how different Draghi is from his predecessor.

      2014 May 9, Dan O'Brien, “Trichet like a broken record when what we need is fresh thinking”, in Irish Independent, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2014

2. A sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany; in full, Frankfurt an der Oder.