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noun
A person from Hartlepool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northumbria, Teesside, offensive
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History
Citizens of Hartlepool are alleged to have thought that a monkey which washed up onto the beach by the town during the Napoleonic wars was a French spy, and to have hanged it accordingly.
