tank town
noun
: a small town
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Sugar Ray Robinson fighting in tank towns, Joe Louis refereeing wrestling matches and glad-handing at Las Vegas casinos—but no one could have predicted such a fate when Ali was Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. 
John Schulian, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
John Schulian, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017 Word History
Etymology
from the fact that trains stopped at such towns only to take on water
First Known Use
1906, in the meaning defined above
- do the bidding of someone
- do the honor
- do the honors
- do the job
- do the laundry
- do the necessary
- do the rounds
- do the same
- do the trick
- do the washing-up
- do the/one's laundry
- do time
- do up
- do ut des
- do ut facias
- do ut in
- do violence to
- do well
- do well by
- do well by (someone)
- do well by someone
- do what with
- do what with (something)
- do what with something
- do with