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squaresville

American  
[skwairz-vil] / ˈskwɛərz vɪl /

noun

Slang.

  1. a thing, place, etc., regarded as conventional, unfashionable, or conservative.

Etymology

Origin of squaresville

An Americanism first recorded in 1955–60; square (in the slang sense “conventional, conservative”) + ’s 1 + -ville

Example Sentences

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On campus, where it once was squaresville to flip for the rock scene, it now is the wiggiest of kicks.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was stuck in this squaresville of a world.

From Gun for Hire by Dongen, H. R. van

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