tank town

English

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

tank town (plural tank towns)

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

2006: Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J-Z‎. Taylor & Francis, page 1931.

单词	tank town
释义	tank town English Etymology From the practice of steam locomotives stopping at small towns to take on water. Noun tank town (plural tank towns) A small, unimportant, place. Nothing ever happens in this little tank town. In 1884 four masked bandits held up a Southern Pacific passenger train as it stopped at the little tank town of Panitano for water. 2004: Thomas Penfield. Dig Here!: Lost Mines & Buried Treasure of the Southwest‎. Adventures Unlimited Press, page 143. References 2006: Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J-Z‎. Taylor & Francis, page 1931.
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