Bakerloo

English

Etymology

Blend of Baker Street + Waterloo.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /beɪkəˈluː/
  • (US) enPR: bā-kər-lo͞oʹ, IPA(key): /beɪkɚˈlu/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Bakerloo

  1. The Bakerloo Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway.
    • 1945 July and August, John Gibbons, “Thirty Years of The Railway Magazine”, in Railway Magazine, page 228:
      It was the Evening News, I know, which had a competition for naming one of the Tube lines. Hence our Bakerloo.
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