Big Apple

Etymology
Popularized by in horse-racing articles in the 1920s - an apple being a treat for a horse, and New York being a prize location for horse-racing at the time. From usage among African American stable hands. See.

"The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York."

Translations

 * Armenian: Մեծ խնձոր
 * Basque: Sagar Handia
 * Catalan: Gran Poma
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Corsican: Grande Mela
 * Esperanto: Granda Pomo
 * Estonian: Suur Õun
 * Finnish: ; Iso Omena
 * French: ,
 * Galician: Gran Mazá
 * Georgian: დიდი ვაშლი
 * German:
 * Greek: Μεγάλο Μήλο
 * Hungarian: Nagy Alma
 * Italian: Grande Mela
 * Japanese: ビッグ・アップル
 * Korean: ^빅 ^애플
 * Mongolian: Том Алим
 * Polish: Wielkie Jabłko
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Велика Ја̏бука
 * Roman: Velika Jȁbuka
 * Spanish: Gran Manzana

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1)  nickname for New York City