Atlantic City

English

Etymology

From Atlantic +‎ city.

• (New Jersey): From being a resort community on the Atlantic seaboard.

Proper noun

Atlantic City

1. A resort city on Absecon Island, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.

   Coordinate term: Ocean City

   • 1982, Bruce Springsteen, “Atlantic City”, in Nebraska:

     Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty / And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

   • 2007 April 4, Nate Schweber, “Man Queried in Killings of Prostitutes”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 June 2015:

     Investigators have been questioning a Salem County man and searching his home in connection with the killings of four prostitutes whose bodies were found near Atlantic City in November, according to an official who has been briefed on the case and the man’s sister.

2. A small census-designated place in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States.