What is a tank town?
Tutoring English, discoveries are continuous. The tutor brings up the term tank town.
tank town (noun):
a small town, not distinguished.
Apparently, the phrase comes from the steam locomotive era, when a train would stop at a town to refill its boiler.
Source:
Mish, Frederick C (editor). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.
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