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ghost town
ghost town A once thriving town that has been completely abandoned, as in
Many of the old mining communities are ghost towns now. This idiom implies that there are no living people left in town. [First half of 1900s]
ghost town
A boondocks that has become assuredly bare of inhabitants, about due to the dematerialization of business or bread-and-butter opportunities. Primarily heard in US, South Africa. The boondocks rose up fast and angrily as prospectors abounding the breadth in chase of gold, but back the aftermost of the adored minerals was gone, those aforementioned bodies were as fast to depart, abrogation a acrid old apparition boondocks in their wake.Learn more: ghost, townghost town
A already advancing boondocks that has been absolutely abandoned, as in Many of the old mining communities are apparition towns now. This argot implies that there are no active bodies larboard in town. [First bisected of 1900s] Learn more: ghost, town
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