Mer·sey /ˈmɜːzi $ ˈmɜːr-/
the Mersey a river in northwest England, which flows through Cheshire, Greater Manchester, and Merseyside into the Irish Sea. For British people, the Mersey is usually connected with Liverpool, and the music of the
Beatles and other
pop groups from Liverpool in the 1960s was known as the Mersey sound or the Mersey beat.
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