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What does Timbuktu mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Timbuktu? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A city in central Mali.
  2. Any proverbially distant or remote place.
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Does a moth flapping its wings in Timbuktu have any effect on a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean?
While you could just write to random addresses in Timbuktu, we have a foolproof system in place.
Speaking of Timbuktu, that's where my next televised adventure's going to be from, and I must dash there.
They say that if you don't shut-up and listen they'll send you to Timbuktu.
Mali contains many historic places of interest, such as Timbuktu and Djenné.
Look at the Aztecs, the Incas, Mesopotamia, the Mongols, The Europeans, Timbuktu, China, Japan.

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