highgate
(UK, _, dialectal) A highway.
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the NOC ones are because of the lib dems picking up seats in places like Crouch End and Highgate, or Waltham Forest having a few Tories in their more suburban parts. Islington and Camden are likely to go to Labour IMO.
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My first show would have been Highgate that May, but my grandma passed away, so... I hear that's not the way I'd want to remember Jerry, but if you never see him you can't remember him at all. Never understood that s…
Hace 70 años, el 5 de mayo de 1956. Marineros soviéticos en la tumba de Karl Marx en su cumpleaños. Londres, cementerio de Highgate.
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(UK, _, dialectal) A highway.
“the NOC ones are because of the lib dems picking up seats in places like Crouch End and Highgate, or Waltham Forest having a few Tories in their more suburban parts. Islington and Camden are likely to go to Labour IMO.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“United Kingdom, London Highgate: EFL Teacher”
— Bluesky· May 2026“My first show would have been Highgate that May, but my grandma passed away, so... I hear that's not the way I'd want to remember Jerry, but if you never see him you can't remember him at all. Never understood that sentiment. Lol”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Hace 70 años, el 5 de mayo de 1956. Marineros soviéticos en la tumba de Karl Marx en su cumpleaños. Londres, cementerio de Highgate.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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