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tank town definition

☆ tank town

a small, unimportant town: originally applied to such a town at which railroad locomotives stopped to have their boilers filled with water

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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