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Met

proper nounnountop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈmɛt//

The London Underground Metropolitan line.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The London Underground Metropolitan line.

  2. 2

    historicalThe Metropolitan Railway.

  3. 3

    The Metropolitan Police Service of London (MPS).

    The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over its handling of the investigation. […] The Met said it had informed its own Directorate of Professional Standards and a "mandatory referral will be made to the IOPC in relation to the initial contact from the woman's friend".

  4. 4

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

    Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fancy.

  5. 5

    The current or historical Metropolitan Opera House or its opera company.

Etymology

Clipping of metropolitan.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA Metropolitan line train.

  2. 2

    A player for the New York Mets.

Forms

plural
Mets
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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).