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Timbuktu

[ tim-buhk-too, tim-buhk-too ]

noun

  1. a town in central Mali, W Africa, near the Niger River. French Tombouctou.
  2. any faraway place.


Timbuktu

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noun

  1. a town in central Mali, on the River Niger: terminus of a trans-Saharan caravan route; a great Muslim centre (14th–16th centuries). Pop: 31 973 (1998) French nameTombouctou
  2. any distant or outlandish place

    from here to Timbuktu

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Timbuktu

1
  1. A remote town in western Africa . Figuratively, it is a faraway and unknown place.

Timbuktu

2
  1. City in central Mali , in western Africa , near the Niger River.
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Notes

By the fourteenth century, it was famous for its gold trade.
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Jordan assented enthusiastically, grousing: “You have a judge in Timbuktu, California, who can do some order and some injunction†to obstruct Trump.

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Another Islamist militant leader who destroyed ancient shrines in Timbuktu was sentenced to nine years in jail in 2016.

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The country has been deep in crisis since at least late 2011, when northern ethnic Tuareg separatists and radical Islamist factions allied to them, took over Timbuktu, Gao and other towns across the north.

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Emboldened by the chaos, Islamist groups began seizing urban centers like the ancient desert city of Timbuktu.

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“I could get off a plane in Timbuktu and score a bag of crack,†he wrote.

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