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  • proper noun A town in south west England

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Examples

  • That would be why the Police in Newquay threatened to taser a man who wanted to use a ladder to rescue another man and his mother from the outside who died.

    Ooooh….. I didn’t know that! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • That would be why the Police in Newquay threatened to taser a man who wanted to use a ladder to rescue another man and his mother from the outside who died.

    Ooooh….. I didn’t know that! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • A six-foot Giant Pacific octopus at Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay, Cornwall loves his Mr Potato Head toy and "turns aggressive" when anyone tries to take it away from him.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • 'He's fascinated by it,' said Matt Slater, of the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay, Cornwall.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • We've never met and I know very little about her beyond the fact she walks her dogs on a beach in Newquay which must mean pleasurably having to dodge all those hunky surf dudes.

    Prince Rupert's Teardrop by Lisa Glass 2007

  • We've never met and I know very little about her beyond the fact she walks her dogs on a beach in Newquay which must mean pleasurably having to dodge all those hunky surf dudes.

    48 entries from October 2007 2007

  • Cheap foreign Holidays, we go surfing in Newquay with Giles and Tabs.

    Archive 2007-07-08 Newmania 2007

  • Cheap foreign Holidays, we go surfing in Newquay with Giles and Tabs.

    Mimi Spencer Is a Man Newmania 2007

  • We've never met and I know very little about her beyond the fact she walks her dogs on a beach in Newquay which must mean pleasurably having to dodge all those hunky surf dudes.

    Prince Rupert's Teardrop by Lisa Glass 2007

  • I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

    Antony Hewish - Autobiography 1975

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