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road to Abilene 

A "road to Abilene" is when a group collectively decides to do something which no individual in the group really wants to do. The term comes from the Abilene Paradox, demonstrated by the story of a family who decides to travel 53 miles north to Abilene for ice cream. On the way back, they begin arguing after realizing that none of them wanted to go in the first place.
"Every one knows that Corporate project sucks, but we're all marching full steam ahead anyway... It's a total road to Abilene."
road to Abilene by Joe Chicago April 21, 2008
Abilene is a backwater hick town in mid Kansas infested with hicks, many old, loud, crappy trucks, crappy country music, and more hicks. Population of around 6,000. Filled with alot of wannabe hick-gangsters who frequently use illegal drugs. The most common would be Marijuana.
-"Wow that guy drives a POS truck."
-"Yea he's probably from Abilene"

-"Did that hick just get blazed and try rapping? He's white."
-"What a tool. He's defnitely from Abilene."
Abilene by The1ThatOwnz December 10, 2010
Descriptive of the refreshing coolness of the underside of a pillow.
He was hot and uncomfortable and the abilene pillow was just what he needed to get to sleep.
abilene by franchez July 16, 2008
Abilene Texas, the portal of meth. Where you can find a tweaker and a church on every corner. Lenetown bc everyone is on dope..death trap, hell, dirty cops.
Stay the hell outta Abilene. You'll catch a charge for farting wrong.
Abilene by Lifejunkie December 16, 2018
A small town in West Texas that is full of beautiful girls.
That Abilene girl is fine! Dude they all are. I love Abilene booties!
Abilene by jay.jay. June 20, 2010
A small town in West Texas that has a population of roughly 115,000 people. It is around two hours away from Dallas, TX and is known mainly for its three private Universities and for Abilene High School, its main high school whose football team has won several state championships. It more recently has become known for its newly-built medical magnet high school named Holland Medical High School. While most who have never been to Abilene or assume sterotypes because they are ignorant about real Texans and assume it is lame and full of rednecks it is actually a culturally diverse town full of men and women who have manners and highly intellectual conversations. Those who are from Abilene (Abilenians) are very smart and appreciate the arts and are well rounded with a good sense of family and proper morals because they have not grown up in a larger city full of unneccesary partying and unneccesarily rude persons. Abilene is not an exciting town in the least to those from towns full of night clubs. Fun is more retro such as going to parks, movies, the lake, or strolling the historic downtown area. Abilene is a good place to raise a family and many do choose to raise their children in Abilene and later move so as to have children who are more respectful of things and people though they may move to bigger cities.
He is from Abilene which is why he is a gentleman