burg n.1
(US) a town, a city.
 | Monthly Traveller (Boston) Aug. 295/1: My hero did actually come into the world by the contrivance of Susan and Samuel Smith, loafer and loaferess of this burgh . | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Spirit of the Times (N.Y.) 25 Mar. 43/1: Two ‘individs’ in this ‘burg’ will give our friend Greer ‘the run of his teeth’ whenever he visits New York. | |
| Wanderings of a Vagabond 304: Now do you take a hint, an’ git away from this burgh as fast as yer can. | |
| Kingsley Graphic 9 Jan. in Why the West was Wild 430: One of the members of the Dodge City delegation that recently paid their respects to your little burg. | |
| ‘And ’Frisco Kid Came Back’ in High School Aegis X (4 Nov.) 2–4: I wuz goin’ ter give de burg de swift an’ elegant side sneak. | |
| Powers That Prey 144: He’s the meanest grafter in this berg. | |
| Bucky O’Connor (1910) 207: It’ll save me the trouble of sticking up the First National and winging a few indiscreet citizens of that burgh. | |
| Philosophy of Johnny the Gent 43: ‘[W]e’ll be up at the top o’ the bill next time we hit this burg’. | |
| You Know Me Al (1984) 25: Well Al we been in this little berg now a couple of days. | |
| diary 18 Jan. 🌐 Dumont is the burg – Camp Merritt is the place – comfortable barracks – had warm bath. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Mint (1955) 55: Anyway, it doesn’t take six cunting towns to make our burg. | |
| ‘Gila Monster Route’ in Hobo 195: He thought of the time he lost his pal / In the hostile berg of Stockton, Cal. | |
| Little Caesar (1932) 153: You get your hat and beat it. Leave the burg. | |
| Circus of Dr Lao 86: One time down at a burg called Tongshan [...] the Chink soldiers rounded up a bunch of deserters. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | ‘The Ballad of Touch-the-Button Nell’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 623: Beyond the Rocking Bridge it lies, the burg of evil fame. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 21: berg A small town. | |
| One Lonely Night 24: Not if [...] the people in this burg can help it. | |
| Exit 3 and Other Stories 9: Buddy, we don’t know nothing about this burg. | |
| Cutter and Bone (2001) 287: There would be grass growing in the streets of this fucking burg this summer. | |
| Christine 2: A pretty ‘out’ group themselves in a burg like Libertyville. | |
| Grand Central Winter (1999) 109: The kind of repressed and lost little burg that squeezes the life out of you. | |
| Indep. Rev. 20 May 1: This grubby burg doesn’t really do style, elegance and grandeur. | |
| ‘A Clean White Sun’ in ThugLit Sept./Oct. [ebook] This burg is disco dead. |
In phrases
1. (US, also main burg) New York City.
| Tales of the Ex-Tanks 71: The main burg [...] is six days due east. | |
| Daily Public Ledger (Maysville, KY) 5 Sept. 1/2: He took in Coney island [...] Chinatown and other places in the big burg. | |
| Seattle Star (WA) 20 May 4/1: The boys from [...] Yazoo City and Walla Walla drifted to the big burg and in six weeks they proclaimed themselves New Yorkers. | |
| Tacoma Times (WA) 23 Jan. 2/3: Luther expects to leave for the big burg in the very near future [...] he will be first seen in New York riding up Broadway. | |
| Mountain Advocate (Barbourville, NY) 20 Aug. 5/2: Sawyer M. Smith and John Owens are holding down New York for a few days. If you hear of a torch light procession in the big burg, why that’s it. | |
| Limey 5: I had no plans beyond looking around ‘the big burg’. |
2. any city.
| McCook Trib. (NE) 6 Apr. 6/4: Our leading attorney had business of the law in the big burg on the west. | |
| Tacoma Times (WA) 25 Dec. 1/1: reports from eastern cities today say that all of the big burgs are tied up in blizzards. | |
| Garden Island (Kauai, HT) 2/3: Burt Blurt [...] occasionally visits the Big Burg [i.e. Kansas City]. | |
| Dict. Amer. Sl. |