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noun
US(The type of) an unsophisticated, impoverished rural community.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in The English Journal. From Dogpatch, the name of an impoverished rural community in the comic strip Li'l Abner by ‘Al Capp’ (Alfred Gerald Caplin, 1909–79).
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