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Hymietown en · PROPN

Etymology

From Hymie + town, in reference to the city's large Jewish population.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory) Derogatory name for New York City: a major city in New York, United States.
    • In campaign speeches, he has called on interest groups that seem to have nothing in common to find common ground. He has been guarded in talking to the press - no doubt remembering the grief that the Hymietown remark brought him during the 1984 campaign. 1988 March 11, Don Wycliff, “The Editorial Notebook; The New Jesse Jackson”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2023, A, page 34: