small town

small town
ADJ: usu ADJ n
Small town is used when referring to small places, usually in the United States, where people are friendly, honest, and polite, or to the people there. Small town is also sometimes used to suggest that someone has old-fashioned ideas. [mainly AM]

...an idealized small-town America of neat, middle-class homes...

The little small-town banks were traditionally very frightened that Wall Street would come to dominate the whole country...

The guy in charge was the typical smalltown tyrant.

(in BRIT, also use smalltown)

English dictionary. 2008.

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