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Muni

"Muni" is a common abbreviation for "municipal", and sometimes becomes a frequently-used name for a city-related service or organization:
*The Muny, an outdoor musical theatre in St. Louis, Missouri (spelled MUNY in this case)
*Municipal bonds
*San Francisco Municipal Railway, a city transit agency in San Francisco, California
*Springfield Municipal Opera
*Muni Consortium (broadband communications)
*Municipal Bridge (St. Louis, Missouri)
*slang term for a municipally-owned and -operated golf course

Muni can also be:
*An abbreviation for mountain unicycling
*An abbreviation for Masaryk University Brno
*A sage or monastic, primarily from Hinduism, where the term originated. It is also sometimes used in Jainism and Buddhism. See Jain muni
*Rio Muni was a Spanish colony that is now part of Equatorial Guinea.

Muni is the surname of:
*Paul Muni (1897-1967), an American actor.
*Scott Muni (1930-2004), an American disc jockey.



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