cabbagetown

cabbagetown
/kab"ij town'/, n. Canadian.
a depressed or dilapidated urban area, esp. a city slum.
[after Cabbagetown, a depressed area of Toronto, allegedly so called because its inhabitants' diet consisted mainly of cabbage]

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