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cardboard city

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cardboard city
an area of a large city where many people without a home sleep outside
Usage notes: Cardboard is a type of thick, stiff paper used to make the type of boxes that people living outside sometimes sleep in to keep warm.
Young people come to the capital full of hope and end up in cardboard city.
See also: city
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Pelly's superficial and profoundly unmusical staging begins in cardboard city - the children live with their trailer-trash parents in a gigantic cardboard box - and the forest on their doorstep turns out to be dead and festooned with litter.
Hansel und Gretel by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
The title of his book Cardboard City - Threads refers to the pre-fabricated housing built in the Grangetown area following the war.
You're never too old to have a book published; Ged, 80 dips into ... by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Others deliver it warm in a jug, accompanied by a sniff and a frown as if you must have come from cardboard city even to have requested it.
I like tap water, but lack bottle by Birmingham Mail (England)
 
 
 
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