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tank town
noun
a small, unimportant town US, 1906
A possible railway etymology.- What’s a fast guy like you doing at a tank-town teacher’s college? — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 10, 1953
- “You think I, with my extensive big-city newspaper experience, want to do filler copy for a bunch of tank-town sheets?” — William Brinkley, Don’t Go Near the Water, p. 84, 1956
- In America he played tank towns like Waterbury, Mass, Springfield, Kingston and Albany and New York. — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 52, 1975
- Any small community where a train stopped to take on water from an elevated storage tank was known as a tank town. — J. Herbert Lund, Herb’s Hot Box of Railraod Slang, p. 110, 1975
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