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The bohemian 'burb where seminal rock band The Doors lit their fire in the 1960s.

From BBC

I had plenty more lazy days with my 'burb besties at Park N Pool, Dairy Queen, and Idlewild.

From Salon

My favorite passage in the essay is when Didion — a fifth-generation Californian whose ancestors left the Donner-Reed Party before that group suffered their grisly demise — dismisses Lakewood as a ‘burb of domestic dilettantes ruining a hard-fought paradise. “Places like Lakewood did not exist before the new people came,” she wrote.

“The Jesus Music” cites the music’s metaphorical Bethlehem as being the Orange County ’burb of Costa Mesa.

Burb’s makes one of the cheapest, and it’s as good as many of the higher-priced burgers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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