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Sing· Sing (siŋ′ siŋ′)

a penitentiary at Ossining, a village in SE N.Y.

Etymology: < Du Sintsing < Ossinsing, earlier form of the village name, apparently < a Delaware word meaning “at the small stones”

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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