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hicksville

[hiks-vil] / ˈhɪks vɪl /
ADJECTIVE
dullsville
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My family first lived with my father’s parents in Brooklyn before moving to Long Island, N.Y., first to Hicksville then North Babylon and, when I was 5, to West Islip.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

There is no suitable gym on site and it is a four-hour round trip by bus to the training facilities in Cantiague Park in Hicksville.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2024

“Kids are consuming entertainment differently than they were 10, 20 years ago,” Mr. McKillips said sitting in a booth at the Chuck E. Cheese in Hicksville, N.Y., on Long Island.

From New York Times • May 11, 2024

And it is from the Hicksville, New York library.

From Scientific American • Aug. 31, 2023

But a bigger event than that was to arouse Hicksville.

From Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese




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