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slab city

slab city noun: an area surrounding a sawmill in American frontier times, where slabs of cut wood were stored or discarded.

Noun

slab city (plural slab cities)

  1. (US, historical) An area surrounding a sawmill in American frontier times, where slabs of cut wood were stored or discarded.

Proper noun capitalized: Slab City

Slab City

  1. A community in Imperial County, California, United States.
    • Outside of the gentrification of the Scrabble set, Slab City begins to resemble the post-apocalypse for which it is known—ramshackle RVs, heaped tyres, gutted cars and the yaps and howls of skinny dogs.2003 March 23, Sanjiv Bhattacharya, “Land of the free”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2017
    Synonyms:
    The Slabs
  2. An unincorporated community in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States.

Synonyms of slab city

  • The Slabs

Forms of slab city

pluralslab cities

Origin of slab city

(California): From the concrete slabs that remained after the WWII-era Camp Dunlap was torn down.

Questions about slab city

What does slab city mean?
Slab city means an area surrounding a sawmill in American frontier times, where slabs of cut wood were stored or discarded.
What part of speech is slab city?
Slab city can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of slab city?
The plural of slab city is slab cities.

Words near slab city in the dictionary

  1. slab
  2. slab avalanche
  3. slab cake
  4. slab cakes
  5. slab cities
  6. slab city
  7. slab hut
  8. slab huts
  9. slab line
  10. slab lines
  11. slab on grade

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slab city (page history and authors); Slab City (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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