proper noun Street Slang

Bayou City

· proper noun · texas

Houston, named for the ten-plus bayous that vein the city.

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Houston's oldest civic nickname. The Allen brothers founded the city on Buffalo Bayou in 1836 and built outward along the slow brown waterways that still snake through every neighbourhood. When it floods — and it floods — the name explains itself.

“Welcome to Bayou City, where the freeways flood quicker than the drains.”
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Bayou City In A Sentence

Welcome to Bayou City, where the freeways flood quicker than the drains.

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