cardboard city

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

an area of a city where people who have nowhere to live sleep outside, protected only by cardboard boxes

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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cardboard cityEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus cardboard cityEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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cardboard city