packingtown
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An industrial area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, known for its meatpacking industry.
Example Sentences
- "They had no authority beyond that; for the inspection of meat to be sold in the city and state the whole force in Packingtown consisted of three henchmen of the local political machine!"
- "By the early 1900s Chicago’s Packingtown had taken mass production to its rational extreme."