Definitions

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  • noun A smaller developed area within a city that boasts all of the traditional features and facilities of a city.

Etymologies

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mini- +‎ city

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Examples

  • It seems in just this last month links to this crap are cropping up EVERYWHERE, people are posting fake links on forums that direct you to minicity rather than what you would assume (and what was implied).

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Check out the city of ExtraLife 2008

  • Offtopic (again) The server day at the minicity site turned over a few hours back so we can clock in more visits.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Chewy vs Barf! Who wins in this fight? 2008

  • They now watched tensely as the two tiny figures of the twins raced out across the half bridge at the base of the minicity, arriving at the peak of the inverted pyramid.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • The minicity above and behind them was now literally teeming with waterfalls: a complex network of streams that twisted and turned, at some times diverging, at others converging, on their inexorable journey down the watercourse toward the forecourt that the twins had just crossed.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • And there, clambering down the wall ladders cut into the towers of the minicity, running across rooftops, sloshing through knee-deep water, microscopic specks against the grandeur of the structure, were the two tiny figures of Lachlan and Julius Adamson running for their lives in a desperate race against the ravenous streams of water tumbling down the system behind them.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • The minicity above and behind them was now literally teeming with waterfalls: a complex network of streams that twisted and turned, at some times diverging, at others converging, on their inexorable journey down the watercourse toward the forecourt that the twins had just crossed.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • And there, clambering down the wall ladders cut into the towers of the minicity, running across rooftops, sloshing through knee-deep water, microscopic specks against the grandeur of the structure, were the two tiny figures of Lachlan and Julius Adamson running for their lives in a desperate race against the ravenous streams of water tumbling down the system behind them.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • They now watched tensely as the two tiny figures of the twins raced out across the half bridge at the base of the minicity, arriving at the peak of the inverted pyramid.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • Guided once again by Pooh Bear and Stretch, they struggled back up the minicity, following a winding vertical path through the labyrinthine watercourse.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • Guided once again by Pooh Bear and Stretch, they struggled back up the minicity, following a winding vertical path through the labyrinthine watercourse.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

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