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DMZ noun any place between two opposing factions or social forces, controlled by neither yet ceded by neither US Originally a military term–“demilitarised zone”–for an area dividing North and South Korea.- TRAVIS: He wanted to go to the DMZ. BETSY: The DMZ? TRAVIS: South Bronx. The worst. — Taxi Driver, 1976
- The back room vibrated with rock music blasting from an enormous set of speakers attached to a stereo system Miguel had stolen, piece by piece, from shops down in the Nineteenth Precinct just below Ninety-sixth Street, the “DMZ” of the East Side. — Thomas Larry Adcock, Precinct 19, p. 71, 1984
- The Camelot was on the DMZ between the Heights and the last vestiges of old-time German-Irish Dempsy, and cops were always welcome. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 99, 1992
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