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单词 one-pub
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one-pub
one-pub adj. originally and chiefly Australian (of a town, village, etc.) possessing only one pub; (colloquial) small, rural, insignificant, uninteresting; cf. one-horse adj.
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1901 H. Lawson Joe Wilson & his Mates 54 The bush roads and tracks that branch out fanlike through the scrubs to the one-pub towns and sheep and cattle stations out there in the haunting wilderness.
1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 July e1 We were staying with friends in a thatched cottage at Tully Cross, a one-pub town in Ireland's rugged Connemara section.
2002 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 27 June 5 West of Toowoomba in the one-pub town of Leyburn, 30 people—a sixth of the population—breasted the bar at the Royal Hotel.
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