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Definition of 'burbs, the

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Other terms relating to 'abbreviations (list of)':

Definitions include: "favorite".
Definitions include: "extended" family, sometimes including close friends.
Definitions include: a Mercedes-Benz brand automobile.
Definitions include: abbreviated form of "trigonometry".
Definitions include: admission paid to get into a bar, dance club, etc.
Definitions include: as a question, to enquire whether someone is present.
Definitions include: marijuana grown hydroponically or otherwise artificially cultivated to increase its potency.
Definitions include: "pervert."
Definitions include: to have, to take.
Definitions include: Short for Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Definitions include: shortened form of "documentary".
Definitions include: Short and sassy for "whatever."
Definitions include: "tuxedo".
Definitions include: "information".
Definitions include: shortened form of "cool".

Other terms relating to 'far away, rural area, boring place':

Definitions include: One hypothesis is that the term comes from the region of southern Illinois known as "Little Egypt."
Definitions include: a placeholder name for a location that is remote, uninteresting, or inhabited by detestable rural folk.
Definitions include: a derogatory term for a small town or rural area.
Definitions include: a location inconveniently far away. Also used is the less offensive East Bumble-fuck.
Definitions include: a boring place.
Definitions include: a general insult.
Definitions include: wild or rough terrain adjacent to a developed area.
Definitions include: any location inconveniently far away; "the middle of nowhere".
Definitions include: any location far away.
Definitions include: a rural area.
Definitions include: a rural location.
Definitions include: a generic disparaging term for any remote, unsophisticated, backwoods town or region.
Definitions include: any place away from excitement.
Definitions include: a place far from civilization.
Definitions include: a placeholder name for a remote, unhip location.

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Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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