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- proper noun US an
imaginary town , the natural home of themediocre andincompetent
Etymologies
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Examples
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For all you one-way ticket holders remaining on board, to quote Marlon Brando in "On The Waterfront," next stop: "Palookaville"!
magic-city-news.com 2008
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Whereas Terry was an ex-boxer who took a one-way ticket to Palookaville and moved into crime, Doug failed to make it in professional ice hockey.
The Town Philip French 2010
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That said, even Palookaville, which wasn't near the minimum, is becoming a book series.
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We love the serial format that gave us masterpieces such as Eightball, Frank, Acme Novelty Library, Optic Nerve, Yummy Fur, Zap, Dirty Plotte, Palookaville, and Love & Rockets -- and we want to keep alive the stapled marvel that is the comic book.
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It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, which came out in 1996 having originally been published in Seth's comic series, Palookaville, follows the artist's search for an obscure (fictional) cartoonist named Kalo; Wimbledon Green (2005) tells the story of "the world's greatest comic book collector".
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Their political game plan for the economy is what Terry in On the Waterfront might have called "a one-way ticket to Palookaville."
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Geithner and The White House Are Making the Wrong Case 2010
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From writer-director, Alan Taylor (The Sopranos, Mad Men, Palookaville), this show sounds better and better with each announcement.
Zach Galifianakis to Star in Todd Phillips’s The Hangover, HBO’s Bored to Death | /Film 2008
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He was on a book signing tour in Palookaville and people drove for miles to line the roads of his transportation route to heckle and ridicule that joke.
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And the lineup of bouts after healthcare isn't exactly the last bus from Palookaville either: Afghanistan, the employment crisis, a looming flu epidemic, market regulation.
Tom Watson: Late Rounds on Healthcare: Can Obama Throw a Counter-Punch? 2009
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I'm sure Essel WILL repeat the Trutanich Titanic - real Titanic, one-way ticket back to Palookaville as his homeless court jester says - trashing neighborhoods with ugly signs.
Trutanich crackdown has Craig X. Rubin facing a 5 to 12 year sentence 2009
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