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Timbuktu
[ tim-buhk-too, tim-buhk-too ]
Timbuktu
/ ËŒ³Ùɪ³¾²úÊŒ°ìˈ³Ù³ÜË /
noun
- 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
- any distant or outlandish place
from here to Timbuktu
Timbuktu
1- A remote town in western Africa . Figuratively, it is a faraway and unknown place.
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Example Sentences
Jordan assented enthusiastically, grousing: “You have a judge in Timbuktu, California, who can do some order and some injunction†to obstruct Trump.
Another Islamist militant leader who destroyed ancient shrines in Timbuktu was sentenced to nine years in jail in 2016.
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.
Emboldened by the chaos, Islamist groups began seizing urban centers like the ancient desert city of Timbuktu.
“I could get off a plane in Timbuktu and score a bag of crack,†he wrote.
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