A rare British coinage for an area dense with pubs — pub country, so to speak.
A rare British coinage for an area dense with pubs — pub country, so to speak. The '-lands' suffix (as in 'heartlands', 'badlands') gives it a mock-geographical feel. Used very rarely and likely coined for specific descriptive or humorous purposes rather than as established slang.
He referred to that stretch of the city as publands, given the density of bars per block.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(British) A zone of muddy ground.
(British) The practice of frequenting pubs.
(British, Irish) an area of land in the United Kingdom or Ireland that is open to the public at all times and until the 18th century would have been land that was free for anybody to graze their animals on.
A British term for an area of waterlogged, muddy, boggy ground — the kind of squelchy, unpleasant terrain that makes your boots disappear and your mood sink. 'Slob' in this context relates to mud or ooze (from Irish 'slab'), and 'land' just confirms the geographic nature of the mess. Slobland is typically found near estuaries, tidal flats, or poorly drained coastal areas — not somewhere you want to be without wellies.
(UK, very rare) An area with many pubs.