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Squaresville

Squaresville proper noun: a fictional or generic location occupied by unfashionable people.

Proper noun

Squaresville

  1. A fictional or generic location occupied by unfashionable people.
    • But too often it reads like the second-rate movies that in the ’60s tried to cash in on the Bond success, the Matt Helm and Derek Flint pictures in which 007’s cool was reduced to swinging bachelor squaresville, a place where it was believed that all the right accouterments — the right stereo...2007 April 8, Charles Taylor, “My Favorite Spy”, in New York Times

Origin of Squaresville

From square + -s- + -ville, evoking a fictional town.

Questions about Squaresville

What does Squaresville mean?
Squaresville means a fictional or generic location occupied by unfashionable people.
What part of speech is Squaresville?
Squaresville is a proper noun.

Words near Squaresville in the dictionary

  1. squares the circle
  2. squares up
  3. squaresail
  4. squaresails
  5. squarest
  6. Squaresville
  7. squaretail
  8. squaretails
  9. squareth
  10. squaretoes
  11. squarewave

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Squaresville (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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