A-town

A-town

A nickname for Atlanta, Georgia. Is your plane flying out of A-town? The 1996 Summer Olympics were held in A-town.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

A-town

n. Altanta, Georgia. We do everything possible to avoid driving through A-town.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • get out of town
  • Get out of town!
  • all around town
  • go to town on (something)
  • skip town
  • all over town
  • hit town
  • night on the town
  • out of town
  • main street
References in periodicals archive
He was in the midst of parlaying his success to adult clubs but hardly anybody came to Decatur's A-Town East for his first attempts to do so in 2007.
That's why Hypnotiq went from being a drink to an invocation at A-Town East.
SURFING SWAG: Ten years after its release, one of Atlanta's early viral hits has taken an unlikely path to ubiquity--some even believe it has supernatural powers
and include Grumpy Gaucho, A-Town Hot Dogs, Wurst Kitchen, and Foxy's Ice Cream.
Celebrate Illinois' bicentennial with Aurora's First Fridays
Figures obtained by the Daily Mirror show even the affluent A-town has been hit by the housing crisis.
Cost of temporary housing has risen 1,000% in Theresa May's constituency; Prime Minister labelled a hypocrite as the Daily Mirror discovers the annual cost of temporary accommodation on her patch has shot up spectacularly
Rayne is getting the chance of a lifetime to live out her dream as a newly signed R&B singer at A-Town Productions.
Tiece Presents "It's Either Me Or Her," Written by National Bestseller Authors, Tiece and Tonii
"(https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WouldYouRather&src=hash) #WouldYouRather take the A-town stomp to the face by Lil reese or The uppercut from the bus driver?" he wrote, in reference to the viral video of a Cleveland bus driver delivering an uppercut to a female passenger.
Lil Reese Leaked Video Shows Chicago Rapper Beating Up Young Woman Violently
Hancock is touring in support of his new album "A-Town Blues."
Marquee
From A-Town to zooted, you can sound as cool as Ice-T by delving into the Rap Dictionary, which has its roots way back in 1992.
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On his latest CD, "A-Town Blues" (Bloodshot), Hancock yodels and strums like Hank Williams, covers Jimmie Rodgers and sings about loneliness, lost love and death on the highway.
'Train' steams into the past
There are nods to the blues history, and the text running through the center is a poem called "Aurora" by Susan Schubert, a member of A-Town Poetics, a local poetry group.
Mural to be unveiled at Fox River Arts Ramble