Barmuda Triangle
n.— «They don’t have to drive home from the Barmuda Triangle, a collection of Lumpkin Street clubs and bars a block away from their Clayton Street apartment.» —“Downtown living up in Athens Loft apartments catching on with UGA students” by Rebecca McCarthy Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia) Dec. 24, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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