Dogpatch
Any community inhabited by hillbillies.
Proper noun
- Any community inhabited by hillbillies.
- An abandoned theme park in Arkansas.
- A neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
- As the start-up took off, they opened an office in Dogpatch, and moved into a house big enough for their growing family in the Marina, a pricey neighbourhood where pastel-coloured terrace houses look over the Golden...
- Another startup employee, who came to San Francisco to work for an early-stage AI company, showed me dismal photos from his office: a two-bedroom apartment in the Dogpatch, a neighborhood popular with tech workers. -...
Origin
From dog + patch, the fictional setting of Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner.