Naptown
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Indianapolis+town.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Naptown
- (US) Nickname for the city of Indianapolis, Indiana
- 1936, “In Indianapolis”, in The Bored Walk, volume 7, Indiana University, page 13:
- Arrow pledge Kathleen Berhman is wearing a siyma mu pin from Naptown.
- 2001 October, Don Gomes, “I Did It Her Way”, in Indianapolis Monthly, volume 25, number 2, Emmis Communications, →ISSN, page 78:
- The same friends who teased me about being a kept man also delighted in pointing out the provincial reputation of the city where I’d be moving. Indianapolis? they asked. Some of them even referred to it as “Naptown.”
- 2022 May 23, David Humphrey, Indianapolis: The City Known as Naptown, Fonthill Media LLc, →ISBN: