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BURG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does burg mean?
• BURG (noun)
The noun BURG has 1 sense:
1. colloquial American term for a town
Familiarity information: BURG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Colloquial American term for a town
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Context example:
I've lived in this burg all my life
Hypernyms ("burg" is a kind of...):
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
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