Definition of "boomtown" [boomtown]

• A town experiencing an economic or a population boom. (noun)

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• "They both obviously convey the notion of boomtown and also represent a boom's inevitable and distressing partner: bust."
• "They both obviously convey the notion of boomtown and also represent a boom's inevitable and distressing partner:"
• "It is the site of Mentryville, an oil "boomtown" where people lived between the 1880's and 1930 that is now a hikeable, walkable ghost town."