tank town
tank town · tank towns
A small, unimportant, placeA small, unimportant, place.
Meaning
1 sensesA small, unimportant, place.
Nothing ever happens in this little tank town.
Origin
From the practice of steam locomotives stopping at small towns to take on water.From the practice of steam locomotives stopping at small towns to take on water.
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Forms
plural: tank towns| Singular | tank town |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedjerkwater town
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.