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Hoboken , section of Antwerp , Antwerp prov., N Belgium, on the Scheldt River. It has large shipyards and wool-processing plants. A former industrial suburb of Antwerp, it was annexed by Antwerp in 1983.

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Hoboken, Belgium, USA USA (New Jersey): having bought it from the Lenni Lenape in 1630, the Dutch settlers named it Hopocan from the local Hopocan Hackingh ‘Land of the Tobacco Pipe’ from hopocan ‘tobacco pipe’.

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