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Fargo

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈfɑɹɡoʊ//

The largest city in North Dakota, United States, and county seat of Cass County.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The largest city in North Dakota, United States, and county seat of Cass County.

    Maybe you've heard of Fargo from the movie or TV series, but you've never actually visited the real place.

  2. 2

    A surname.

    He was gut shot. Blood-caked fingers pressed over the wound, he turned toward Fargo, his revolver rising.

Etymology

Named for Northern Pacific Railway director and Wells Fargo Express Company founder William Fargo.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).