Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A suburb.
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- noun colloquial Short form of
suburb .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When you live in an unincorporated "burb," you don't have to worry about cluttered junk around the yard or my tin building, which is full of old computers; and outside of it, I have gutted Macintoshes and various other digital peripherials.
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"Why such sudden interest?" he replied, "Where is the 'burb' on his nose?"
A Portrait of Old George Town Grace Dunlop Peter
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This is terrible news happening right in the 'burb's backyard.
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As you know, I live out in the poverty ridden burb of el Chante.
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As you know, I live out in the poverty ridden burb of el Chante.
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On the one hand, environmentalists champion the city: The more densely people are packed into urban areas, the less land will be gobbled up by the dreaded suburbs and the fewer fossil fuels will be used to commute from burb to urb.
Putting the Park in Park Avenue Eric Felten 2011
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As you know, I live out in the poverty ridden burb of el Chante.
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As you know, I live out in the poverty ridden burb of el Chante.
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As you know, I live out in the poverty ridden burb of el Chante.
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As you know, I live out in the poverty ridden burb of el Chante.
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