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by Etheryte 862 days ago
Known also as a trap street [0], a name which I believe is more widely used?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
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nicbou 861 days ago
Trap streets are a form of paper street

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street

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Uehreka 862 days ago
Are these real? I see this fact (and the trap words in dictionaries one) mentioned extremely often on the internet, and it’s just so cute and clever that it starts to trip my bullshit sense.

Edit: meh, TFA seems to have a fair number of examples, I’m satisfied for now.

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fineIllregister 862 days ago
One of my favorite examples: a fictional town that became real. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York
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