Toontown

See also: 'Toontown and ToonTown

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of Saskatoon + town.

Proper noun

Toontown

  1. (colloquial) A nickname for Saskatoon.
    • 2001 October 4–10, Mari Sasano, “2001 - a bus Odyssey: Trapped on a Greyhound for 50 hours”, in Andrew Hanon, editor, See Magazine, number 409, Edmonton, Alta.: Gazette Press Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, columns 1–2:
      A stop in Saskatoon is celebrated with possibly the worst sandwich ever. […] I sleep whenever I can, and now that we have picked up new passengers in Toontown, I no longer have the row to myself.
    • 2015, Wes Funk, “Rocket of the Starship”, in Frostbite: A Novel, [Regina, Sask.]: Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing, published May 2017, →ISBN, pages 185 and 190:
      Saskatoon could be a violent city. […] “Just do. You're well known around here—kinda famous, at least here in Toontown. Grumpy Comic Shop Guy.”
    • 2015 April 10, Coral Andrews, “Hawkeyes continue to bash and crash”, in NightLife (Waterloo Region Record), Kitchener, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 3:
      Toontown’s Shooting Guns (recent Juno nominees and champions of Hawkeyes), are also doing a 12-inch split vinyl release with the band.

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