Packingtownとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From packing +‎ town.

固有名詞

Packingtown

1. (historical) An industrial area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, known for its meatpacking industry.
   • 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:

     They had no authority beyond that; for the inspection of meat to be sold in the city and state the whole force in Packingtown consisted of three henchmen of the local political machine!

   • 2025 October 3 (last accessed), “Packingtown”, in Illinois State University‎, archived from the original on 27 July 2024, page 1:

     By the early 1900s Chicago’s Packingtown had taken mass production to its rational extreme.