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cabbagetown

cab·bage·town [ kábbij tòwn ] (plural cab·bage·towns)


noun 
Definition:
 
Canada urban slum: an inner-city slum ( informal )

[Late 20th century. After Cabbagetown, a contemptuous nickname of a run-down area of Toronto, where the poor population of Anglo-Saxon origin were said to live on cabbage]
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