Palookaville
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From palooka (“a stupid or oafish person”) + -ville. Popularized in On the Waterfront (1954).
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Palookaville
- (US) An imaginary town, the natural home of the mediocre and incompetent.
- 2010 March 15, Jason Zinoman, “Dreams Die Hard, Even in Palookaville”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- But what holds it is the working-class poetry of Derek Ahonen’s script, with the “broken down dreams” and a “gutter full of empty stomachs” of a hard-boiled era of soulful stiffs and dreamers going nowhere. It’s the speeded-up sound of a return trip to Palookaville.
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Further reading[edit]
- Jonathon Green (2024) “Palookaville n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang