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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 townplay

  Familiarity information: BURG used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BURG (noun)


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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