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the burbs

noun as in Middle America

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In addition to Riley’s film, she’ll soon appear in an Eddie Murphy comedy, “The Pickup”; Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, “Good Fortune”; a buddy comedy with SZA that she produced called “One of Them Days”; and a Peacock television adaptation of the 1989 Tom Hanks movie “The ’Burbs.”

Even the mainstream stuff, I wrote funny lines in “The Lost Boys” and “The ‘Burbs.”

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In his song “Rhyming While Black,” he shouts out to everyone “from the streets to the burbs / and the farms to the curbs.”

“There is a mocktail menu pretty much everywhere we go, whether we are eating dinner in the city, the ’burbs, or we spend summers in Montauk,” he said.

Instead, virtually all the budget for the nearly 5-year-old regional agency still comes from Seattle and county government, with most of the burbs not yet persuaded to contribute.

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

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