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cabbagetown

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cab⋅bage⋅town

[kab-ij-toun]
–noun Canadian.
a depressed or dilapidated urban area, esp. a city slum.

Origin:
after Cabbagetown, a depressed area of Toronto, allegedly so called because its inhabitants' diet consisted mainly of cabbage
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