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Dog town

Venice Beach, CA.
The ghetto by the sea.
Place where new-aged skateboarding began.
Tom: Where you heading for the summer break?
Dave: Venice Beach.
Tom: Oh, you mean Dog Town.
by benormous May 4, 2006
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Dog town

n. 1. An low-rent neighborhood of Venice Beach, California where modern skateboarding was, literally, invented.
2. a suburban neighborhood characterized by gang activity
by wayfarer May 5, 2005
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one dog town

Yeah , Cletus is a hillbilly from some little ol'one dog town in Kentucky. I think the population is less than a hundred people.
by Shane56 February 7, 2018
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dogtown

Downscale neighborhood near the border of Venice Beach and Santa Monica. Spawned the Zephyr surf team, or Z-Boys who went on to revolutionize skateboarding.
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by m luv May 14, 2005
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dogtown and z-boys

One of the best skate documentaries ever made. It chronicles the events that took place in South Santa Monica, California in the mid-to-late 1970's in a ghetto area known as "Dogtown." A group of twelve young radicals bonded together to become one of the most influencial skate teams to this day. The group included skateboarding legends such as Tony Alva, Jay Adams, and Stacy Peralta.

The boys were sponsored by the Zephyr surf and skate shop located in the heart of Dogtown. The owners of shop (Skip Engblom, Jeff Ho, and Craig Stecyk) acted as mentors, coaches, and fellow "pirates", often letting the youths engage in illegal activity and often joining in on the fun.

The Z-Boys were primarily surfers, and they carried their surf style into their skating, prefering the low surf stance to the traditional straight-backed style. As the boys gathered interset in their new style, they also gathered fame which was accompanied by high paying offers from competing skate companies.

"Dogtown and Z-Boys" documents the rise and fall of the Zephyr Skate Team.

If you want to know the real side of the story behind "The Lords of Dogtown," watch this movie!
"Dogtown and Z-boys is such a great documentary- it sucks that they had to ruin it by making that crappy Hollywood version of the story (Lords of Dogtown)."
by little wing October 9, 2005
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Dogtown, USA

A nickname for Carmel, California due to how dogs are enthusiastically welcomed into every business, including restaurants, with regularly filled water bowls at almost every entrance.
Let’s take our little Duchess of York out to Dogtown, USA so she can meet up with some of her four-legged buds.
by Dr Bunnygirl May 2, 2022
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Lords of Dogtown

When both you and your roommate bring home someone and you both hookup at the same time in your own beds. Like the scene when the brother and sister are hooking up in their shared room.
Hey look at those two hot guys. Lets bring them home and Lords of Dogtown.
by isuzu December 24, 2012
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