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  • proper noun A town in Hampshire, England, next to Portsmouth

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Examples

  • Gosport is a spiffing name but Gosport Tories has that nautical air to it.

    Do the Tories only say what they really think when they think nobody can hear them ? Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • The device is currently under testing in Gosport, UK and Checkmate Seaenergy hopes to bring it to market by 2014.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • A quick check of Liberal Democrat councillors in Gosport found that 5 of the 9 (including the current Mayor of Gosport) are West Ham supporters.

    Anthology of Canvassing Anecdotes No 94 2006

  • I was brought up in Gosport, a mile away, and used to go to Lee at low tide to collect shark's teeth from the Eocene exposures.

    Little-England-on-the-Solent Ray Girvan 2004

  • I was brought up in Gosport, a mile away, and used to go to Lee at low tide to collect shark's teeth from the Eocene exposures.

    Archive 2004-05-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • On his twenty-first birthday, his father, who had sympathized with his admiration for Turner enough to buy two pictures -- the "Richmond Bridge" and the "Gosport" -- for their Herne Hill drawing-room, now gave him a picture all to himself for his new rooms in St. Aldate's -- the

    The Life of John Ruskin 1893

  • Like those signs that were put up in Gosport that say “Free sat nav. [to the thief if you leave yours on display] “, I think this says everything about what is wrong with policing in our country.

    What A Bunch Of Plonkers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • The investigation, at Bedenham Primary School in Gosport, Hants, has angered Rocky’s parents.

    4-Year-Old Boy Racist? | Impact Lab 2007

  • Will and I used to go find them along overgrown canals when we lived in Gosport (well, I used to go find them.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • The idea had previously passed through one phase of greater change, in his drawing of "Gosport" for the England, in which, while the sky of the

    The Harbours of England John Ruskin 1859

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