boomtown
See also: boom town
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]boomtown (plural boomtowns)
- Alternative form of boom town.
- The mining boomtown she remembered was now a ghost town.
- 2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time[1]:
- Once a livestock hub, Abilene has become an AI boomtown. Its arid outskirts are home to the flagship campus of Stargate, the data-center partnership between OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank heralded by Trump in January.
