dragsville

[ dragz-vil ]

noun

, Slang.

1. something unpleasantly boring or tedious.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dragsville¹

First recorded in 1965–70; drag (in the sense “a bore”) + ’s ¹ + -ville ( def )

Example Sentences

To judge from the far-out photography, real desperate sound track, and dragsville dialogue that Krylon-spray the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems less concerned to assist the triumph of justice than to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smiling Through the Glaze Sir: We are smiling through our tears, or vice versa, for in the Nov. 24 cinema review of I Want to Live, you say: "To judge from the . . . dragsville dialogue that Krylon-sprays the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems ... to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser."

From Time Magazine Archive