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tank town
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noun
a town where trains stop to take on a supply of water.
any small, unimportant, or uninteresting town.
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Origin of tank town
An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
Words nearby tank town
tankini, tank locomotive, tankship, tank suit, tank top, tank town, tank trailer, tank trap, tank truck, tank up, tank wagon
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How to use tank town in a sentence
Already, through his fingers, I felt the hum in the rails that every tank-town-reared kid knows.
A Matter of Proportion|Anne WalkerIt'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.
I wake up dead some day doin' short circuit in a Kansas tank-town.
Just Around the Corner|Fannie Hurst