boom town
or boomtown
a town that has grown very rapidly as a result of sudden prosperity.
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How to use boom town in a sentence
At the time, San Diego was a boom town of perhaps 30,000 people – half the current population of La Mesa.
Politics Report: The 101 Ash St. Scandal Isn’t Going Away | Andrew Keatts | July 3, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoIf he actually did possess such a weakness, Little Missouri and the boom town were fully able to satisfy it.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands | H. Hagedorn.From the first it became evident that Willets would not be a boom town.
The Trail Horde | Charles Alden SeltzerFor two decades it grew as rapidly as ever grew a "boom-town" in the West.
The Personality of American Cities | Edward HungerfordAt the foot of this ancient fiord lies the boom town of Skaguay.
It presents with striking vividness a picture of the rise and fall of a boom town.
Curly | Roger Pocock
British Dictionary definitions for boom town
a town that is enjoying sudden prosperity or has grown rapidly
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