"ragtown" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword for “ragtown”

Catchword: ragtown

Filed Under: English, Architecture, Urban Planning & Zoning

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: Ragtown. Camp in which oild field workers live.

Article or Document Title:
“Petroleum and Oil Workers’ Slang and Jargon”

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Lexicon of Trade Jargon

Dateline:
Ill., Mont., Ark., Tex., Okla., Miss.

Date of Publication:
1938-39

(This date is uncertain. It is either not given, unclear, or unreliable in the original source.)

Page Number:
16

This catchword has yet to be researched.

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