Usually means: Rapid growth due to prosperity.
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  1. boom town: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. boom town: Collins English Dictionary
  3. boom town: Vocabulary.com
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  5. boom town: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. boom town: Wiktionary
  7. boom town: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. boom town: Dictionary.com
  9. Boom Town (Doctor Who), Boom Town (film), Boom town: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. boom town: Rhymezone
  11. boom town: FreeDictionary.org
  12. boom town: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. boom town: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. boom town: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Boom Town: Encyclopedia

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  1. boom town: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (boom town)

▸ noun:  A town that is experiencing or has experienced a period of rapid growth due to some temporary activity.

Similar:
boomtime, boom, burgeoning, hive of activity, efflorescence, coming and going, fast times, explosion, exponential growth, hive of industry, more...

Opposite:
ghost town, recession town, declining town

Phrases:
sights near a boom town, more...



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Similar:
boomtime, boom, burgeoning, hive of activity, efflorescence, coming and going, fast times, explosion, exponential growth, hive of industry, more...

Opposite:
ghost town, recession town, declining town

Phrases:
sights near a boom town, more...



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