burb

[burb]

noun

Slang.

1. suburb.

Word History and Origins

Origin of burb¹

By shortening

Example Sentences

The only O.C. city on the list is Huntington Beach — you know, the ‘burb with an all-Republican council that’s suing California for being a sanctuary state, declared itself a “non-sanctuary” community in January and and plans to place a plaque outside the city’s main library with an acrostic “MAGA” message.

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The bohemian 'burb where seminal rock band The Doors lit their fire in the 1960s.

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I had plenty more lazy days with my 'burb besties at Park N Pool, Dairy Queen, and Idlewild.

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My favorite passage in the essay is when Didion — a fifth-generation Californian whose ancestors left the Donner-Reed Party before that group suffered their grisly demise — dismisses Lakewood as a ‘burb of domestic dilettantes ruining a hard-fought paradise. “Places like Lakewood did not exist before the new people came,” she wrote.

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“The Jesus Music” cites the music’s metaphorical Bethlehem as being the Orange County ’burb of Costa Mesa.

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Related Words

• countryside 
• environs 
• hinterland 
• outpost 
• outskirts 
• suburbia 
• village