Endsville

[ endz-vil ]

adjective

, (sometimes lowercase)

1. most wonderful or exciting:

   a rock band that was regarded as Endsville in the late fifties.

2. (of a location, circumstance, etc.) most isolated or undesirable.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Endsville¹

end ¹, dragsville

Example Sentences

If California voters recall current Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 14 and Elder maintains his lead among the 46 candidates running to replace the incumbent, it sure seems like Endsville for the progressive California dream.

From Los Angeles Times

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad—if you’re indifferent, endsville.

From Slate

Instead, he is the son of a schoolteacher from Macedonia, which Athens sophisticates consider Endsville.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Endsville of this odd arrangement is the cotton comedy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Endsville, thought the 16-year-old heir, Cyrus Eaton III, grandson of the Industrialist Cyrus Sr. There was no football team at Hawken, and worse yet, no girls.

From Time Magazine Archive