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jonestown
name 3noun 1
Definitions
name
1
A former settlement in northern Guyana founded by the Peoples Temple cult, and the site of an infamous mass murder-suicide in November 1978.
2
The Jonestown massacre itself.
3
Any of a number of other places in the English-speaking world.
noun
1
Any mass suicide or murder, especially one with religious or cultic overtones.
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