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单词 cow town
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Definition of cow town in English:

cow town

noun
North American
  • 1A town or city in a cattle-raising area of western North America.

    〈北美〉(北美西部的)养牛区城镇

    Example sentencesExamples
    • If only it could talk, it looks as if it could tell tales of cattle drives, cow towns, campfires, shootouts - and gullible gunwriters.
    • An atmosphere of an old American cow town is being presented with cowboys in western gear walking around town.
    • Wyatt had been a peace officer in two of the West's roughest cow towns.
    • Livingston is attached to its past as an old cow town where you could walk down the street and greet your neighbors.
    • Asheville in fact became a leading cow town long before that distinction befell Dodge City or Abilene.
    1. 1.1 A small, isolated, or unsophisticated town.
      〈喻〉(偏僻的)小镇;纯朴的小镇
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At 18, she plunked down the money she'd been saving for years to buy a train ticket to Manhattan and leave her cow town behind.
      • Not too shabby for a bunch of Texans working part-time in a cow town.
      • How else do you think she went from some cow town in Canada to being a stage star?
      • I've traveled by modem vehicle from south Texas to the Kansas cow town of Dodge City.
      • ‘I got off a tour bus when Denver was a sleepy cow town,’ he recalls.
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