Meaning & use
podunk
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Small, unimportant, or out of the way, used to describe an insignificant place.
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He couldn't believe he'd been transferred to such a podunk little town.
The team's away game was in some podunk stadium two hours from the city.
A note on using this word
An informal, mildly dismissive American term; despite its casual tone, it appears in standard dictionaries as a common adjective rather than a proper name.
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