Slab City en · PROPN
Etymology
(California): From the concrete slabs that remained after the WWII-era Camp Dunlap was torn down.
Meanings
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A community in Imperial County, California, United States.
Outside of the gentrification of the Scrabble set, Slab City begins to resemble the post-apocalypse for which it is known—ramshackle RVs, heaped tyres, gutted cars and the yaps and howls of skinny dogs.
2003 March 23, Sanjiv Bhattacharya, “Land of the free”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2017:
- An unincorporated community in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States.