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单词 tank town
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tank town
tank town n. U.S. a small, unimportant town, originally one at which trains stopped to take on water.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > small town > unimportant small town
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1906 J. F. Kelly Man with Grip 11 Tank towns are big ones, compared to our route.
1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely v. 38 You would find them in tanktown vaudeville acts.
1978 Times 25 Mar. 14/4 When vaudeville was in its final death throes, young Donald O'Connor was..going—as the show biz legend decreed he should—from ‘one tank town to another’.
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