tank town
noun
a town where trains stop to take on a supply of water.
any small, unimportant, or uninteresting town.
Origin of tank town
1An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
Words Nearby tank town
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How to use tank town in a sentence
Already, through his fingers, I felt the hum in the rails that every tank-town-reared kid knows.
A Matter of Proportion | Anne WalkerIt's a tank town with a community of seven hundred of the tightest wads that ever sunk a dollar into the toe of a sock.
I wake up dead some day doin' short circuit in a Kansas tank-town.
Just Around the Corner | Fannie Hurst
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