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burb
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burb also 'burb  (bûrb)
n. Informal
A suburb: "when the condos get so dense out in those 'burbs that the deer have to run right through hot tubs" (Russell Baker).

[Short for suburb.]


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Go local and try out any of , the bar strips around either the Or Tor Kor market (near the Chatuchak weekend market) or Ramkhamhaeng Soi 91, a street out in the burbs.
If a planet wasn't born in the hot zone, it must have moved in from the outlying burbs.
And the rules for conformity are dictated by an assortment of systems, philosophical, cultural and political, brought about by "art museums, literature of mobile homes, trailer parks, squatter burbs, suburbs" (97) meant to annihilate the self.
 
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