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Urban sprawl

I have to manicure my urban sprawl girl
by Fur burger October 4, 2016
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Sprawl blob

A city whose size, night glow from lights, and/or land coverage makes it visible from outer space.
Wow! That city is so spread out, it must look like a sprawl blob from outer space.
by rbbiking August 27, 2013
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sprawl anxiety

The feeling of impending doom that you're going to have to do a shit load of sprawls because some cunts haven't done their penalty sprawls for missing training.
I'm having severe sprawl anxiety today. I reckon Mick and Aidy are gonna ride us something shocking tomorrow.
by Geoff Agnew November 2, 2022
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Quest sprawl

Quest sprawl or quest sprawling is something that often happens in RPGs and can be defined as obtaining an over abundance of quests in a very short period of time, distracting you from the main story.
Don’t give me wrong Skyrim is amazing but the quest sprawl on that game is ridiculous!
by Kylos19 May 11, 2025
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Sprawl Shack

A poorly built new single family home in the American suburbs and exurbs. Built as quickly and cheaply as possible by developers, they are made of extremely cheap and flimsy materials, including plywood. They have thin insulation, poorly fitted and cheap siding, poor quality roofing, and a crooked frame. They tend to be built on the outer fringes of suburban sprawl in desolate car-dependent neighborhood with no landscaping or trees.
Looks like another sprawl shack is going up over there.
by potatoboi630 April 23, 2024
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The Sprawls

A catch-all term that includes Suburban, Exurban, & Rural areas in North America where you need a car for everything.

It includes all places shaped by low-density single-family zoning, car-dependency, & consumerism. It does not include TV-style walkable suburbs like Springfield or rural agrarian areas where everyone grows their own food.

The Sprawls is where a growing majority of Americans actually live but TV refuses to display. Whether you live in a beige McMansion in the suburbs or a trailer home near a cow field, both can say they live in The Sprawls.

Life in the Sprawls is defined by a lack of walkable old-town areas, lack of 3rd places or nightlife, huge parkinglots, LOTS of driving, & hardcore consumerism & commercialism. There's little to do in Sprawl towns other than shopping & driving. Human contact is minimal & transactional. Most of your time will be spent indoors or sitting in traffic.

The Sprawls came to be after WW2 & the rapid expansion of the auto industry & suburbs, especially in real estate landgrabs like in Texas.

Many people are dependent on social media for human interaction since the Sprawls are designed to isolate us. Meeting people requires planning, driving, spending money, & scheduling weeks ahead. Over time life in The Sprawls produces loneliness, boredom, screen addiction, resentment, & the feeling that life is permanently stalled even if you’re “doing everything right.”
"Just walk outside & talk to someone?! Dude where do you think I live? Fucking Time Square? I live in the Sprawls dude. Aint nobody making friends here, we're just sitting in our cars the whole time we leave home."

Most TV shows & movies take place in a handful of vibrant settings like old city blocks or Rockwell suburbs. But few ever dare to show the Sprawls, for it would be a very isolating depressing setting where everyone has to plan to meet up.

Anyways I live in the Sprawls, so it shouldn't be hard to guess why I rarely get to talk to girls my age.

I was born in the sprawls, so I didnt get to have many friends growing up, didn't go to many parties, get girlfriends, etc. I pretty much grew up on TV cartoons & videogames.
by Evan Joestar February 3, 2026
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