Mis‧sis‧sip‧pi /ˌmɪsəˈsɪpi◂, ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi◂/

1. (written abbreviation MS) a state in the southeastern US, now an industrial area but formerly producing a lot of cotton, and an important centre of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s ⇒ Deep South

2. the Mississippi the longest river in the US, about 2350 miles long, which flows from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico

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