Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A town or community which has acquired sudden wealth and notoriety through land speculation, etc.; also, a town which originated in a real estate ‘boom.’
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Examples
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She belongs to a boom-town that defines itself in terms of property, "when if you wanted your kitchen tiled and we wanted little else, you had to fly the workman in from England, and put him up in a hotel".
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Deadwood: This HBO wild-west anarchy drama, which ran, sadly, for far too few episodes, featured stellar performances (most notably, Ian McShane as the cynical boom-town overlord) and jaw-droppingly dense dialogue, almost Shakespearean in its tone and style.
Bill Mann: TV Critic's Call: Here Are The Decade's 10 Best Series
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Deadwood: This HBO wild-west anarchy drama, which ran, sadly, for far too few episodes, featured stellar performances (most notably, Ian McShane as the cynical boom-town overlord) and jaw-droppingly dense dialogue, almost Shakespearean in its tone and style.
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Deadwood: This HBO wild-west anarchy drama, which ran, sadly, for far too few episodes, featured stellar performances (most notably, Ian McShane as the cynical boom-town overlord) and jaw-droppingly dense dialogue, almost Shakespearean in its tone and style.
Bill Mann: TV Critic's Call: Here Are The Decade's 10 Best Series
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But the Carver men, older and married, usually left the boom-town entertainments behind to drive fifty miles through the arid foothills and sleep at home.
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On both counts, the Mountjoys were on the outskirts of respectability -- a bit too close to low life and the theatrical subculture, "the great growth-industries of leisure and pleasure which give Jacobean London its rackety boom-town aura."
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By 1890, local government owed $900,000,000.33 No wonder that a reaction set in against this aspect of boom-town psychology.
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By 1890, local government owed $900,000,000.33 No wonder that a reaction set in against this aspect of boom-town psychology.
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By 1890, local government owed $900,000,000.33 No wonder that a reaction set in against this aspect of boom-town psychology.
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Instead of unfettered boom-town growth, you'll see managed living conditions in order to facilitate quick production.
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