hicksville
/hiks-vil/US // ˈhɪks vɪl //
希克斯维尔,希克斯维尔,希克斯威尔,希克斯维尔市
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n.名词 noun
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Slang.
- : a backward, provincial place; backwater.
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Examples
You were a two-bit gold digger, fresh off the bus from Hicksville, when you met Mitchum at whatever bar you happened to stumble into.
Not far away is Hicksville, and to the northward the ancient town of Jericho.
With the exception of two persons the chickens were the only creatures that ever waited for the mail in Hicksville.
It was no wonder that Joshua Hicks was astonished, for things like this did not happen in Hicksville every day.
One might suppose that Hicksville would be just the very place folks would go to, if they were dead.
He was waiting for the big daily event in Hicksville, the arrival of the train.
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