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New Scotland Yard
Variant of Scotland Yard
- short street in London, off Whitehall, orig. the site of police headquarters
- headquarters of the metropolitan London police, on the Thames embankment since 1890officially New Scotland Yard
- the London police, esp. the detective bureau
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