"tank town" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the practice of steam locomotives stopping at small towns to take on water.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tank towns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tank town (plural tank towns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Nothing ever happens in this little tank town.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Thomas Penfield, Dig Here!: Lost Mines & Buried Treasure of the Southwest, Adventures Unlimited Press, page 143:",
          "text": "In 1884 four masked bandits held up a Southern Pacific passenger train as it stopped at the little tank town of Panitano for water.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small, unimportant, place."
      ],
      "id": "en-tank_town-en-noun-UGElkdVz",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(originally US) A small, unimportant, place."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "jerkwater town"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tank town"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the practice of steam locomotives stopping at small towns to take on water.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tank towns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tank town (plural tank towns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "jerkwater town"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Nothing ever happens in this little tank town.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Thomas Penfield, Dig Here!: Lost Mines & Buried Treasure of the Southwest, Adventures Unlimited Press, page 143:",
          "text": "In 1884 four masked bandits held up a Southern Pacific passenger train as it stopped at the little tank town of Panitano for water.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small, unimportant, place."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(originally US) A small, unimportant, place."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tank town"
}