K.C. n.
(US) Kansas City, Missouri.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Tramp Diary in Jack London On the Road (1979) 55: Scotty and Dave [...] did not return in time to catch the K.C. Passenger. | |
| Progress (Shreveport, LA) 11 Dec. 4/2: If the Retail Dealers’ Association would take this matter up with the Kay-See officials [etc.]. | |
| Progress (Shreveport, LA) 26 Mar. 12/4: His fight against the encroachment of the KayCee Railroad. | |
| World of Graft 9: Other cities have similar nicknames. [...] Boston, ‘Bean-Town’; Detroit, ‘Slow-Town’; Baltimore, ‘Balt’; and Kansas City, ‘Kay See’. | |
| Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 47: He had left his own clothes, made to measure in K.C., and his diamonds with the barkeep. | |
 | Barton County Democrat )Grand bend, KS) 5 Jan. 5/1: One day from a ‘cat’ house in Chicago or Kay See there came a whalin’ booklet [...] and it had for sale most everything. | |
| Univ. Missourian (Columbia, MO) 22 Nov. 3/2: When you see him down in old K.C. [...] He’s a perfect gent in Kansas City. | |
| Garden Island (Kauai, HT) 2/3: How do the people of Kay See address each other? | |
| Main Stem 44: The bar-keeper in K.C. (Kansas City) would cash a pay check any time. | |
| Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 48: Casey. – Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City Southern Railroad. | |
| Disinherited 232: I jist blowed in from K.C. | |
| Harder They Fall (1971) 176: Here’s that sawbuck I owe you, boy. Remember that time in K.C.? | |
| ‘Killer’ in Best of Manhunt (2019) [ebook] ‘Chicago! That’s three hundred miles!’ ‘K. C is two fifty [...] K. C garages will be looking for a bent Buick. Chicago garages won’t’. | |
| Horn 56: I want to cut out, and make KayCee for a while. | |
| Rockabilly (1963) 163: Shelly [...] bracketed them with instructions about finishing out the gig in K.C. and hopped a plane to New York. | |
| Gonif 84: Kansas City was still the cross points where you could hook up with key action [...] The crowd to see in K.C. was Solly’s mob. | |
| Stand (1990) 271: The National Guard had been called into KC and St Louis. |