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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southeast Idaho on the Snake River northeast of Pocatello. It was established as a ferry point in the mid-1800s.

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  • noun a town in southeastern Idaho on the Snake River

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Examples

  • It opened its now-abandoned Idaho Falls route as something of a hybrid—an extension of its Portland-Pendleton route to access maintenance facilities in Boise.

    Tiny Airline Cashes In on Small Cities Joel Millman 2012

  • Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, made his first court appearance before a federal magistrate in Pittsburgh on Thursday, one day after he was arrested at a western Pennsylvania hotel.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Scott Brown Probably Only Saw Half Of 'Margin Call' Eliot Nelson 2011

  • "I'm not saying they took advantage of us," says Idaho Falls' aviation director Len Nelson .

    Tiny Airline Cashes In on Small Cities Joel Millman 2012

  • "I'm a free-market person," says Mr. Nelson, the director of the Idaho Falls airport.

    Tiny Airline Cashes In on Small Cities Joel Millman 2012

  • Though the Idaho Falls service didn't involve federal subsidies, the city waived terminal and landing fees to attract SeaPort's business.

    Tiny Airline Cashes In on Small Cities Joel Millman 2012

  • Nonetheless, he says he regrets that Idaho Falls didn't lock SeaPort into a long-term contract, as other cities have.

    Tiny Airline Cashes In on Small Cities Joel Millman 2012

  • So Culpeper got the draw to fly to Salt Lake City and drive a rental car north up I-15 to Pocatello, then on to Idaho Falls, to complicate some farm families' lives.

    A Killing in the Market Neil Serven 2011

  • There are some other remarkable encounters, such as Richard Nixon's visit to an airfield in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in 1971.

    Here's Lookin' At You Steve Dollar 2011

  • Happily parting with my boxes of books, chess theory and all, donating them to the mission shelter, I turned southward with a lighter load, crossed a low stretch of the Rockies, and made it as far as Idaho Falls before running out of fuel.

    The Good Year Jesse Crockett 2011

  • The airline has since pulled the plug on those flights, as it did in December on its service between Idaho Falls and Boise, after just five months.

    Tiny Airline Cashes In on Small Cities Joel Millman 2012

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