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podunk
/ˈpoʊdʌŋk/
noun 1name 1adj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
applied, little, live, small
VERB + PODUNK
know
PODUNK + NOUN
', atlantis, pendleton, term, town
PREP.
in
ADV.
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Definitions
noun
1
A member of a Native American people who spoke an Algonquian Quiripi language and lived primarily in modern-day Hartford County, Connecticut.
name
1
A mythical small town of no importance.
They even know it in Podunk, wherever that may be.
Podunk. A term applied to an imaginary place in burlesque writing or speaking.
adj
1
Small, rural, and unimportant.
"'A Super Bowl win can legitimize us as a town. We're not some small podunk town anymore,'" said Spencer Venable of Indianapolis.
Yes the beautiful time every year when this little podunk town [of Pendleton, Oregon] swells to four or five times her size with Round-Up feverish Cowboy types who chew, spit and chase four-legged critters around a screaming arena….check that….That’s normal…
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They even know it in Podunk, wherever that may be.
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Podunk. A term applied to an imaginary place in burlesque writing or speaking.
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Podunk, like Atlantis, has no locus. Sought often, it is unfound and apparently unfindable.
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"'A Super Bowl win can legitimize us as a town. We're not some small podunk town anymore,'" said Spencer Venable of Indianapolis.
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Yes the beautiful time every year when this little podunk town [of Pendleton, Oregon] swells to four or five times her size with Round-Up feverish Cowboy types who chew, spit and chase four-legged cri
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You might live in a podunk town if...your Wal-Mart has a hitching post.
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