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India-no-place

India-no-place proper noun: indianapolis.

Proper noun

India-no-place

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) Indianapolis.
    • They were twenty-year-old twins who had just moved out from Indianapolis, or “India-no-place,” as they said. They wanted to be stars.1978, Benjamin Stein, Dreemz, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 187
    • Hardly anybody writes odes to Indianapolis. No Sandburg or Gershwin has ever praised the Midwestern city’s hard American beauty. No bustling metropolis, that town; no seething cauldron of culture. Instead, folks mockingly called it “India-no-place.”1984 June 11, Jacob V. Lamar, Jr., “India-no-place No More”, in Time, →ISSN, →OCLC

Forms of India-no-place

alternative formIndianoplace

Origin of India-no-place

Blend of Indianapolis + no place.

Questions about India-no-place

What does India-no-place mean?
India-no-place means indianapolis.
What part of speech is India-no-place?
India-no-place is a proper noun.

Words near India-no-place in the dictionary

  1. india rubbers
  2. India shawl
  3. India shawls
  4. India steel
  5. India-inky
  6. India-no-place
  7. india-rubber
  8. india-rubber man
  9. india-rubber men
  10. india-rubbers
  11. indiaca

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