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A town that is added to a map but doesn't exist to keep other mapmakers from crossing copyright laws.
person reading map: I've been driving around for hours and i can't find the town of Algoe
accompanying person: it must just be a paper town
accompanying person: it must just be a paper town
by piecesofyellow October 18, 2008
Apr 24 Word of the Day
A cultural and aesthetic mind-state that prioritizes making money, even as an “underground” or “radical” creator. The work isn’t made for money, but it’s the money that matters the most.
by Pop Pop Bienstock April 01, 2021
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Look at all those cul-de-sacs, the streets that turn in on themselves all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people in their paper houses burning the furniture to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking the beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. It's just a paper town.
by whoeversaidthatwaswrong! August 22, 2010
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paper town is a made-up place used by cartographers to test for plagiarism. they will put fraud locations on their maps so if it shows up on other maps, that means another cartographer is plagiarizing.
John: Why can't Google Maps navigate me to Agloe, New York?
Margo: It's a paper town, it doesn't exist.
Margo: It's a paper town, it doesn't exist.
by connor franta's wife April 26, 2015
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a pseudovision which is a subdivision that was plotted but never built or finished and has been abandoned.
by UptownFangirl October 11, 2014