attributive(of a town) small and with few and poor facilities.
the township where once thousands thronged is now a dreamy little one-pub place
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On this route we shoot through from a one-pub town where the afternoon beer queue, on the first and last truly hot and sunny day, is so long that one trip to the bar is all you get.
A sleepy one-pub hamlet halfway between Port Lincoln and Streaky Bay, Elliston has one thing in abundance—waves.
He lived in Skipton UK and had visited Skipton Australia, and warned that the Australian Skipton was a "one pub town".
I remember finding myself in a one-pub town in the far north of Queensland.
He wouldn't last five minutes in the baking heat of Marree, a one-pub town 650km north of Adelaide.
We were in a one-pub town about six hours north of Adelaide, nestled in the Flinders Ranges.
The beauty of Northies is that it is a one-pub area.
It passes through Craighouse, Jura's one-shop, one-pub, one-garage town, dominated by its distillery.
Word gets around a one-pub town very effectively.
The 26-year-old star was recently on location in the dusty, one-pub town of Marree while he filmed a forthcoming crime drama.