Mississippi
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishMississippiMis‧sis‧sip‧pi /ˌmɪsəˈsɪpi◂/ 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 → see also Deep South, the2 → the Mississippi