frankfurt

name

1. The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.

   “Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters.”

2. (metonymically)The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.

   “The poor third-quarter results from Frankfurt had the broadest impact because they spotlighted the vulnerability of the listed German universal banks to the financial crisis spreading from Asia.”

3. (metonymically)The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.

   “Despite this risk, little has happened in the six months since Frankfurt cut interest rates causing one to wonder how different Draghi is from his predecessor.”

4. A sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany; in full, Frankfurt an der Oder.

noun

1. (Australia, US)A frankfurter; a hot dog sausage.

   “Sample of frankfurts procured from Stanley Kwiatkowski, Grand Rapids, Mich. Contains excessive amount of cereal.”

   “Frankfurts of the highest quality are prepared generally from a mixture of approximately half beef and half pork.”

   “As a kid in the 50s, (before we became infested with the current mish-mash of liquorice allsorts) pork fritz, devon, sliced ham, frankfurts, pork sausages...were all about as common a staple as you care to name. Even the Italians and Greeks of the time ate (and continue to eat) the stuff!!”