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Old Oct 22, 2021 | 5:01 pm
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johan rebel
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
In English, gross has more than one use -- not all of it meaning "disgusting".
For sure, but the others make even less sense in combination with "city".

I'm not sure what City Gross is supposed to mean in any language. In Swedish, gross means 12 dozen, as it can in English. Swedes also seem to think that "city" means downtown. In my neck of the rural woods the real rubes can be heard to announce excitedly "i morgon skall jag till city!", referring to the center of the nearest one-horse town.

So maybe City Gross actually means Downtown 144? That would make real sense.

Johan
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