4 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
relating to a residential district located on the outskirts of a city (near the city, but far from the center of it)
- The expression first came into popular use in the 1970s to describe the flight to the suburbs of whites living in the older cities of the American Northeast.Introduction (76% in)
- In his classic 1974 study Getting a job, Granovetter looked at several hundred professional and technical workers from the Boston suburb of Newton, interviewing them in some detail on their employment history.Chapter 2 (40% in)
- Move to the suburbs, to put as much distance as possible between yourself and the majority of criminals.Chapter 4 (96% in)
- The first kid I knew who smoked was Billy G. We became friends in fifth grade, when the major distinctions in our suburban N.J. town—jocks, heads, brains — were beginning to form.Chapter 7 (35% in)
There are no more uses of "suburban" in The Tipping Point.
Typical Usage
(best examples)