squaresville
Americannoun
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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