squaresville

[ skwairz-vil ]

noun

, Slang.

1. a thing, place, etc., regarded as conventional, unfashionable, or conservative.

Word History and Origins

Origin of squaresville¹

An Americanism first recorded in 1955–60; square (in the slang sense “conventional, conservative”) + ’s ¹ + -ville

Example Sentences

Yet when the stories hit the news, the Rose Garden gala was portrayed as Squaresville, U.S.A.

From New York Times

Mr. Mosseri is a close confidant of Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, and he knows that his installment at Instagram was met with widespread skepticism among its staff, seen as evidence that the blue, squaresville platform had officially swallowed the chic rainbow-colored one.

From New York Times

It’s easy to forget how excellent she was – and is – playing comedy, with a droll lilt to her line readings; she puts the free-spirited zing into this movie, which was clearly conscious of being a bit squaresville for its day.

From The Guardian

In “Mama Told Me Not to Come,” for instance, the strings and brass couldn’t quite hang with the band’s laid-back funk groove, which made Newman look like precisely the opposite of the guy he’s describing in the song: a hipster who suddenly finds himself in Squaresville.

From Los Angeles Times

The majority of Cohen’s look consists of finds cobbled together from his favorite neighborhood thrift shops, Squaresville and Paper Moon Vintage.

From Los Angeles Times