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Slab City
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slab city
English
Etymology
California From the concrete slabs that remained after the WWII-era Camp Dunlap was torn down.
Proper noun
slab city
en comm co/Imperial County s/California c/US.
en The Slabs
en-GB Sanjiv Bhattacharya Land of the free w:The Observer 2003-03-23 https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2003/mar/23/features.magazine27 0261-3077 Outside of the gentrification of the Scrabble set, Slab City begins to resemble the post-apocalypse for which it is known—ramshackle RVs, heaped tyres, gutted cars and the yaps and howls of skinny dogs. https://web.archive.org/web/20170620052033/https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2003/mar/23/features.magazine27
en ucomm co/Shawano County s/Wisconsin c/US.
Further reading
Slab City, California
Slab City, Wisconsin