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What does Memphis mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Memphis? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A city of ancient Egypt.
  2. The largest city in the state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County.
  3. The name of several towns or cities in the US.
    1. a small city in Missouri, and the county seat of Scotland County.
    2. a city in Texas, and the county seat of Hall County.
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When most people hear about Memphis they think of rednecks and country people.
During their three-day trip, two members of the delegation were mugged at gunpoint on the streets of Memphis.
She beat the rap in August, acquitted of all charges by a federal jury in Memphis.
We used have a jug band, Gutbucket, in Memphis years ago and that is when I started playing the washboard.
A Memphis Zoo colleague recorded a similarly striking behaviour in a related species of African baboon spider, Hysterocrates crassipes.
After briefly working with B.B. King in Memphis, Perkins barnstormed the South with Earl Hooker during the early fifties.

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