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'burbs

/ bɜːbz /

plural noun

  1. informal.
    short for suburbs See suburb
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In addition to Riley’s film, she’ll soon appear in an Eddie Murphy comedy, “The Pickup”; Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, “Good Fortune”; a buddy comedy with SZA that she produced called “One of Them Days”; and a Peacock television adaptation of the 1989 Tom Hanks movie “The ’Burbs.”

Even the mainstream stuff, I wrote funny lines in “The Lost Boys” and “The ‘Burbs.”

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In his song “Rhyming While Black,” he shouts out to everyone “from the streets to the burbs / and the farms to the curbs.”

“There is a mocktail menu pretty much everywhere we go, whether we are eating dinner in the city, the ’burbs, or we spend summers in Montauk,” he said.

And the closure of the local Burbs Burgers chain has also been documented in these pages, with formerly prolific restaurant owner Josh Henderson explaining that he’d attempted to expand his sole remaining concept to get “ahead of the debt” he owed, but in the end, it “couldn’t get there fast enough.”

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