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'burbs

/ bɜːbz /

plural noun

  1. informal.
    short for suburbs See suburb
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.”

Three shows, ‘Son of a Critch,’ ‘Children Ruin Everything’ and ‘Run the Burbs,’ join the CW’s Monday lineup this summer.

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

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I could be didactic with you — sure, quit your job, marry your partner, move to the burbs — and that may feel like a prognostication of sorts.

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

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