Related Words for boomtown

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metropolis
x/xx
Noun, Noun
boom
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Noun
bustling
/xx
Noun
wasteland
/x
Noun
backwater
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Noun
slum
/
Noun
roadhouse
/x
Noun
city
/x
Noun
town
/
Noun
mecca
/x
Name
frontier
x/
Noun
bonanza
x/x
Noun
whorehouse
/x
Noun
hellhole
/x
Noun
cowboy
/x
Noun
gulch
/
Noun
megalopolis
xx/xx
Noun
heartland
/x
Noun
mining
/x
Noun
railroad
/x
Noun
ghetto
/x
Noun
shanty
/x
Noun
thriving
/x
Adjective
cosmopolitan
xx/xx
Noun
prairie
/x
Noun
postindustrial
/x/xx
Noun
hotbed
/x
Noun
bohemia
x/xx
Name
badlands
/x
Noun
squalor
/x
Noun
industrialism
x/xxxx
Noun
seaport
/x
Noun
prospectors
/xx
Noun
renaissance
xx/
Noun
jump start
//
Phrase, Noun
rust belt
//
Phrase, Noun
death blow
//
Phrase, Noun
bolt out of the blue
///x/
Phrase, Noun
crime wave
//
Phrase, Noun
land grab
//
Phrase, Noun
stock boy
//
Phrase, Noun
dust storm
//
Phrase, Noun
transformed
x/
Verb
became
x/
Verb
western
/x
Adjective
former
/x
Adjective
typical
/xx
Adjective
industrial
x/xx
Adjective
turned
/
Verb
moved
/
Verb
new
/
Adjective
was
/
Verb
battlefield
/xx
Noun
bestseller
//x
Noun
capitalist
/xxx
Adjective, Noun
colliery
/xx
Noun
commune
/x
Noun, Verb
disco
/x
Noun, Verb
drugstore
/x
Noun
factory
/xx
Noun, Adjective
metropolises
x/xxx
Noun
plantation
x/x
Noun
ranch
/
Noun, Verb
shipyard
/x
Noun
skyscraper
/xx
Noun
tycoon
x/
Noun
blow
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
bundle
/x
Noun, Verb
fall
/
Verb, Noun
off
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
gloss
/
Noun, Verb
die
/
Verb, Noun
get
/
Verb, Noun
pidgin
/x
Noun
daylight
/x
Noun, Verb
tell
/
Verb, Noun