Milwaukee

Perhaps from Potawatomi minwaking, or Ojibwe ominowakiing (“gathering place (by the water)”), or an Algonquin word meaning for “the good land”.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɪlˈwɔːkiː/
• (US, without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /mɪlˈwɔki/
• (Wisconsin) IPA^(key): /məˈwɔːkiː/

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• (General American, cot–caught merger, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /mɪlˈwɑki/
• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /mɪlˈwɒki/

Milwaukee

2. The largest city in Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County.
   • 2019 October 13, “Toronto slang on the rise thanks to city's growing pop culture relevance”, in CBC News‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 July 2022:

     During the Toronto Raptors' championship run, a fan-made sign referred to the opposing Milwaukee Bucks as the "Milwaukee Bucktees," bucktee being an insult deriving from a similar word in Somali.

   • 2020 August 18, James Poniewozik, “A D.N.C. Opening Night for the New Abnormal”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     There was no location, really — most of the convention took place in a Milwaukee of the mind. […] Instead, the teleconvention kept a few standards (like the Bruce Springsteen–soundtracked montage) and borrowed from a grab bag of other TV formats, from talk show to cable news to reality-TV reunion special.

3. An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
4. An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania.

• Milwaukie (archaic)