Derogatory term for a small or suburban town in which there is little independent entertainment or culture and the local population finds itself chronically bored. Originally coined in movies from the 1950's.

Adj. Something that is expected to have a long lifespan by virtue of having existed for a long time, based on the lindy effect, named for the New York restaurant Lindy's, coined by Albert Goldman and popularized by Nassim Taleb.