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boom town

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noun

  1. a town that has grown very rapidly as a result of sudden prosperity.


boom town

noun

  1. a town that is enjoying sudden prosperity or has grown rapidly
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of boom town1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Los Angeles was a boom town in the early 1910s and a war zone between the forces of labor and capital.

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A novelist, she had written the bestselling “Annie Jordan,†about a plucky heroine in boom town Seattle modeled on her pioneer family.

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Marysville was a gold rush boom town, more populous in 1860 than any other city in the state except for San Francisco and Sacramento.

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Laukkaing took on the character of a Wild West boom town, where anything goes and anything can be bought and sold.

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Reminiscent of a frontier boom town, the human-built industrial port refines fossil fuels at a relentless pace.

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