Definition of boomtown
: a town enjoying a business and population boom
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Once a bustling town of 1,500, the boomtown went bust a few years after gold was discovered in 1892.
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Once a boomtown with steel plants and shoe factories, Portsmouth's population has declined from a peak of 42,000 in 1930 to 20,000 today, according to the U.S. Census.
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BUTTE Butte was a mining boomtown in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Now, a trail of clues leads to this scrappy industrial boomtown in rural China.
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After touring Britain, the East Coast, the Deep South and a gig at P.T. Barnum’s American Museum, Chang and Eng traveled to the boomtown of San Francisco in 1860.
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This now happens every day on lots throughout boomtown Seattle.
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Nashville is a boomtown, slurping up millennials and immigrants to work in health care, tech, auto parts, and education.
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Halliburton’s headcount has risen from 50,000 in 2016 to 55,000 at the end of last year, with much of the hiring concentrated in the boomtowns of Midland and Odessa in West Texas.
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First Known Use of boomtown
1896
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: a town that experiences a sudden growth in business and population : a booming town
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