Isle of Dogs
Proper noun
Meaning
Isle of Dogs
A peninsula (not a true island) formed by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England.
Examples
Cobham was a common butt of veiled satire in Elizabethan popular literature; he figures in Ben Jonson 's Every Man in His Humour and may have been part of the reason The Isle of Dogs was suppressed.
October December * October 3 Millwall F.C. is founded by workers on the Isle of Dogs in London as Millwall Rovers.
Later in the 1920s, the rivalry was intensified during strike action which Isle of Dogs -based companies (i.e. Millwall fans) refused to support, breeding ill will between the two camps, the bitterness of this betrayal enduring for years.
"Isle of Dogs" is rated PG-13 for thematic elements and violent images and has a total running time of 1 hour and 41 minutes.
Recently TfL faced criticism from Isle of Dogs residents who use the Thames Clipper Riverbuses when the stop at Masthouse Terrace mysteriously disappeared from a consultation document.
The core of the route ran alongside the Great Eastern line out of London and south along the former London & Blackwall Railway line through the Isle of Dogs.