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boomtown

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English

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Etymology

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From boom +‎ town.

Noun

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boomtown (plural boomtowns)

  1. 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.

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