tank town
Americannoun
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a town where trains stop to take on a supply of water.
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any small, unimportant, or uninteresting town.
Etymology
Origin of tank town
An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
Example Sentences
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Together they tour the tank town rodeo circuit, always following the same strategy.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1940 Las Vegas was a scraggly tank town with a tumbleweed economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Life in and around their pelagic tank town is the subject of this eerie, colorful documentary by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a successor to his awesome epic, The Silent World.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its actors are unknowns, its scene a Southwestern tank town, and its subject boredom.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tank town has a permanent population of about fifty thousand plus about ten thousand transients.
From The Universe — or Nothing by Moldeven, Meyer
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