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Definition of the 'burbs
'burbs, the
noun
- the suburbs.
Are you sure you want to go to this thing? It's out in the 'burbs.
- See more words with the same meaning: abbreviations (list of).
- See more words with the same meaning: far away, rural area, boring place.
Last edited on Feb 12 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.
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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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