rust belt

rust belt

noun (sometimes initial capital letters)
the heavily industrial area of the northeastern U.S. containing the older industries and factories.

Origin:
1980–85
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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rust belt
 
n
an area where heavy industry is in decline, esp in the Midwest of the US

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rust belt definition


  1. n.
    the industrial north of the U.S. (Patterned on sun belt.) : The salt they put on the roads in the winter made my car all rusty. I guess that's why they call this area the rust belt.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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