tank town

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English

Etymology

From the practice of steam locomotives stopping at small towns to take on water.

Noun

tank town (plural tank towns)

(originally US) A small, unimportant, place.
Nothing ever happens in this little tank town.
- 2004, Thomas Penfield, Dig Here!: Lost Mines & Buried Treasure of the Southwest, Adventures Unlimited Press, page 143:
  In 1884 four masked bandits held up a Southern Pacific passenger train as it stopped at the little tank town of Panitano for water.

See also

jerkwater town

References

Eric Partridge (2005) “tank town”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1931.

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