tank town

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English

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Etymology

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From the practice of steam locomotives stopping at small towns to take on water.

Noun

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tank town (plural tank towns)

  1. (originally US) A small, unimportant, place.
    Nothing ever happens in this little tank town.
    • 2004, Thomas Penfield, Dig Here!: Lost Mines & Buried Treasure of the Southwest, Adventures Unlimited Press, page 143:
      In 1884 four masked bandits held up a Southern Pacific passenger train as it stopped at the little tank town of Panitano for water.

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