CONNOLLY

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• CONNOLLY (noun)
  The noun CONNOLLY has 1 sense:

1. United States tennis player who was the first woman to win the United States, British, French, and Australian championships in the same year (1953) (1934-1969)

  Familiarity information: CONNOLLY used as a noun is very rare.

• CONNOLLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States tennis player who was the first woman to win the United States, British, French, and Australian championships in the same year (1953) (1934-1969)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Connolly; Little Mo Connolly; Maureen Catherine Connolly

Instance hypernyms:

tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)

 Context examples 

She reminded him of Lizzie Connolly, though there was less of fire and gorgeous flaunting life in her than in that other girl of the working class whom he had seen twice.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He said good-by to Lizzie Connolly, abruptly, at the entrance to night school, and hurried away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

From the deck of the Mariposa, at the sailing hour, he saw Lizzie Connolly hiding in the skirts of the crowd on the wharf.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Lizzie Connolly. And I live at Fifth an' Market."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Under her purity, and saintliness, and culture, and ethereal beauty of soul, she was, in things fundamentally human, just like Lizzie Connolly and all Lizzie Connollys.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He could not be disloyal to his kind, and it was to more than Lizzie Connolly that his hat was lifted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You belong by rights to girls like Lizzie Connolly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the blaze of the electric lights, he saw Lizzie Connolly and her giggly friend.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Once, on the dancing-floor, he saw Lizzie Connolly go by in the arms of a young workingman; and, later, when he made the round of the pavilion, he came upon her sitting by a refreshment table.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)