tank town

noun

1. a town where trains stop to take on a supply of water.
2. any small, unimportant, or uninteresting town.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tank town¹

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

Example Sentences

Already, through his fingers, I felt the hum in the rails that every tank-town-reared kid knows.

From Project Gutenberg

It's a tank town with a community of seven hundred of the tightest wads that ever sunk a dollar into the toe of a sock.

From Project Gutenberg

I wake up dead some day doin' short circuit in a Kansas tank-town.

From Project Gutenberg