Dubuque
/dəˈbjuːk/
/dəˈbjuːk/
- a US town on the Mississippi River in the state of Iowa. It is sometimes referred to as the typical example of a small, boring US community. A writer in the New Yorker once said that it was not the magazine for 'the old lady from Dubuque'.
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