| 单词 | cardboard city |
| 释义 | > as lemmascardboard city cardboard city n. (a) an urban area of (cheap) housing made of inferior materials; (b) an urban area where homeless people congregate in makeshift shelters made from cardboard packaging and similar materials.Sometimes (with capital initials) as a nickname for a specific area. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > lack of planning cardboard city1876 urban blight1934 urban sprawl1934 sprawl1955 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > decrepit or unsightly cardboard city1876 twilight zone1909 blight1938 grey area1959 twilight area1960 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > disreputable purlieu1619 urban jungle1849 cardboard city1876 skid road1880 skid row1931 New Jack City1989 1876 J. J. Rowan Emigrant & Sportsman in Canada ii. 60 Ottawa is not a cardboard city; there are no shanties, no shoddy. Everything is solid, substantial, and handsome. 1949 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 12 June 10/4 The 1949 version of the hobo..is different from the previous brigades. The percentage of college men is extremely high and Walla Walla's cardboard city has its share. 1967 N.Y. Times 7 May 129/2 A few blocks away is a low-income white neighborhood, nicknamed Cardboard City. 1990 Independent 24 Jan. 20/6 Beggars on our streets, cardboard cities..are the results of..political indifference. 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 37 They'd evict us and we'd have to live in Cardboard City with winos and dossers. Fancy being a bag lady, do you? < as lemmas |
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