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burg noun- a city or town US, 1835
- Young love gets a break in Washington, too, because the burg with its environs is small-town in construction[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 88, 1951
- I’ve got to get out of this burg. — Jim Thompson, The Nothing Man, p. 266, 1954
- “They’re coming in from the burgs, man. Bit shooters and they’re gathering around waiting for orders.” — Mickey Spillane, The Snake, p. 37, 1964
- There was another cat in the burg that owned all the beer, the Copa, a basketball team and his jazz club. — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 33, 1975
- I want you hogs to let this burg know you’re here. — Lewis John Carlino, The Great Santini, 1979
- That freak who tried to kill me had to have been sent by the Pimp Blimp–who, if he can get at me in the jailhouse, can reach me in this burg. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 115, 1990
- a burglary US
- Sometimes he just sets up burg’s. He doesn’t do them himself, but farms out the address and steers the stolen property to his own fenching channels. — Gerald Petievich, To Die in Beverly Hills, p. 113, 1983
- “I’m here at camp ’cause they think I did a burg’—a robbery.” — Leon Bing, Do or Die, p. 63, 1991
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