publands

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noun

An area with many pubs.

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Meanings

nounpublands pl (plural only)
  1. UKpluralplural onlyrareAn area with many pubs.

    Part love story, part thriller, and set in the publands of London's Earls Court,[…]

    1985, Roger Omond, The Apartheid Handbook
    2 more examples

    warn the young — / keep from the publands in the port / or into sewerage you'll be flung.

    1976, Soundings, volume 3, page 72

    […]publands of Earls Court, Hangover Square's protagonist, semi-alcoholic George Harvey Bone[…]

    2007, John Harding, Patrick Hamilton: His Life and Work : a Critical Study, page 46

Origin

From pub + lands.

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