Palookaville Palookaville

Palookaville - Definition and Overview

Palookaville:

  • Palooka is American slang originating in the 1920s meaning a stupid or oafish person. The word palookaville is an extension of this slang to refer to a place where such people may have come from. Further detail on origins of the word can be found at http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pal1.htm
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