ABREAST

PRONUNCIATION: (uh-BREST)

MEANING: adverb:
1. Side by side and facing the same direction.
2. Informed; up-to-date.

ETYMOLOGY: From a- (on, at) + breast, from Old English breost. Earliest documented use: 1450.
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A BEAST - a two-L llama (apologies to Ogden Nash)

LA BREAST - pertaining to the pit with the most tar

AIR EAST - a new airline headquartered in Shanghai