splitsville
Americannoun
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the state or condition of being divorced or separated.
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the act of departing from a place; the state of being empty of people.
Tallahassee is splitsville--no legislators are left in town.
Etymology
Origin of splitsville
An Americanism first recorded in 1950–55; split (in the senses “to separate, divorce” and “to leave, depart”) + ’s 1 + -ville
Example Sentences
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And now, antivirus maker Symantec is joining the splitsville club.
From Forbes • Oct. 9, 2014
By now Peggy Olson and her radical beau are splitsville.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2013
Still, Americans' chances of winding up in splitsville are pretty high—73 percent of third marriages, 53 percent of married smokers, and 32 percent of all wedded Oklahomans wind up divorced.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2013
Robert S. Cohen, the lawyer who helped guide Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Christie Brinkley, Ivana Trump and other A-listers to splitsville, says he wishes he’d thought of the idea.
From New York Times • May 26, 2012
Holden then splits with Dunaway, delivering some of the sharpest splitsville dialogue ever written.
From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010
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