boomtown

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A form of boom town — A town that is experiencing or has experienced a period of rapid growth due to some temporary activity.

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Meanings

nounboomtown (plural boomtowns)

plural boomtowns

  1. alternativeAlternative form of boom town.

    The mining boomtown she remembered was now a ghost town.

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    Over the next few decades, most of the boomtowns, including Gray Horse, began to die off.

    2021 (originally published 2017, adapted 2021), David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Younger Readers, page 228

    Once a livestock hub, Abilene has become an AI boomtown. Its arid outskirts are home to the flagship campus of Stargate, the data-center partnership between OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank heralded by Trump in January.

    2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time

Origin

From boom + town.

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APA

boomtown. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boomtown

MLA

“boomtown.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boomtown. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boomtown,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boomtown.

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