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Nowheresville

Noun

(informal)

Definition: A place or situation of no significance, promise, or interest.

Examples: “A bunch of kids from nowheresville.”

“In those days, long before comic shops were conceivable, especially in the nowheresville, Leicestershire where I lived, American comics were as rare and sporadic a presence as nylons in wartime.’

“After Erica and her family moved to the nowheresville of Hallenburg, New Hampshire, when Erica was 12, they decided to enrol her into Franklin Kastler Academy.”

Published in Dawn, Young World June 10th, 2017

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