Dogpatch

Any community inhabited by hillbillies.

Proper noun

  1. Any community inhabited by hillbillies.
  2. An abandoned theme park in Arkansas.
  3. 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.