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squaresville

[ skwairz-vil ]

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of squaresville1

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

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