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Podunk

[ poh-duhngk ]

noun

  1. any small and insignificant or inaccessible town or village:

    After a year in the big city, I was ready to move back to Podunk.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Podunk1

1660–70, Americanism; generic use of Podunk, village near Hartford, Conn.
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He was not just some podunk tax collector, but a prominent ally of President-elect Donald Trump — so close to Trump, in fact, that he was put forward as Merrick Garland’s replacement.

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Lucius has a knack for showmanship, with moves he stole from Maximus, but he’s more feral, going tooth-to-tooth with a nasty baboon in a podunk ring outside the city.

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It's like the band of Robin Hood people broke into this basically podunk office of the FBI, right?

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Cao later told podcast host Alec Lace that he did nothing illegal and that the story was published by a “podunk local newspaper.”

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When he shows up at the Double Deuce in Podunk, Missouri U.S.A., it’s the kind of place “where they sweep up the eyeballs after closing,” the owner says.

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