| 单词 | tank town |
| 释义 | > as lemmastank town tank town n. U.S. a small, unimportant town, originally one at which trains stopped to take on water. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > small town > unimportant small town mudhole1784 toytown1816 Podunk1840 one-horse town1855 tank town1906 jerkwater1912 Hicksville1921 bumfuck1972 1906 J. F. Kelly Man with Grip 11 Tank towns are big ones, compared to our route. 1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely v. 38 You would find them in tanktown vaudeville acts. 1978 Times 25 Mar. 14/4 When vaudeville was in its final death throes, young Donald O'Connor was..going—as the show biz legend decreed he should—from ‘one tank town to another’. < as lemmas |
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