a small, unimportant town: originally applied to such a town at which railroad locomotives stopped to have their boilers filled with water
tank town
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tank town
noun
A small town.
Origin of tank town
So called because trains would stop there only to replenish waterTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural tank towns)
- A small, unimportant, place. (From the practice of steam locomotives stopping at small towns to take on water.)
- Nothing ever happens in this little tank town.
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