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Answer for the clue "Small town ", 6 letters:
podunk

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Word definitions for podunk in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
legendary small town, 1846, originally the name of a small group of Indians who lived around the Podunk River in Connecticut; the tribe name is in colonial records from 1656 (as Potunck ), from southern New England Algonquian (Mohegan or Massachusetts) ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Podunk is a hard rock band that formed in Port Arthur , Texas in 1992, soon thereafter establishing themselves on the scene in Austin, Texas . Similar to AC/DC and The Black Crowes in style, Podunk performed at South by Southwest in the mid-1990s and subsequently. ...

Usage examples of podunk.

Being a chief deputy in Podunk was a demotion from being a lieutenant on the Memphis police force, and his yearly salary dropped by over twenty thousand.

The Voltarians, with all this nonsense about sources and accu­racy, were definitely on the wrong road: even the corniest weekly in Podunk could give them lessons.

The second time you must keep me waiting for an hour and a half, then come out into the reception room and shake hands and ask me whether I know the Wilsons of Podunk and say how nice that we have mutual friends, but you're in an awful hurry today and you'll call me up for lunch soon and then we'll talk business.

The person who says smugly that good manners are the same everywhere and people are just people hasn't been farther out of Podunk than the next whistle stop.