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P-town

P-town is the clipping of Provincetown.

Meaning of Provincetown

Proper noun

Provincetown

  1. A town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
    • The court pointed to an earlier ruling in the case of a company that was licensed to operate cigarette vending machines in Provincetown.2024 March 11, Steve LeBlanc, “Court upholds town bylaw banning anyone born in 21st century from buying tobacco products”, in AP News
    Synonyms:
    P-town

Forms of P-town

alternative formP'town
alternative formP-Town

Questions about P-town

What is P-town the clipping of?
P-town is the clipping of Provincetown.

Words near P-town in the dictionary

  1. P-pop
  2. P-shaped
  3. P-side
  4. P-site
  5. P-spot
  6. P-town
  7. p-type
  8. P-U
  9. p-value
  10. p-values
  11. P-wave

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Adapted from Wiktionary: P-town (page history and authors); Provincetown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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