East Jesus

proper noun

A fictional remote, backward, inhabited place.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. USA fictional remote, backward, inhabited place.

    I'm just a plain hillbilly from East Jesus Nowhere with this adopted child that everybody keeps on telling me is dumb as a box of rocks.

    1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees: A Novel, page 102
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    So G. and I had a good piss-up together, as happy with one another as if we were both natives of East Jesus, Kansas, newly met in the Rue Scribe.

    c. 1954, Behan, Brendan, The Letters of Brendan Behan (1992), page 55

    Only gave him seventy-five for the night; said he'd get the rest if he worked a black rodeo way the hell and gone over in East Jesus, Texas.

    1999, Sarah Bird, Virgin of the Rodeo, page 70

    Their staffs were also well looked after—except for the French, whom we packed off to motels in East Jesus in retaliation for their high-handedness toward the American delegation when they had been hosts a year earlier.

    2000, David Gergen, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton, page 151
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Chicago

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