Usually means: Conflict between university and locals.
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  1. town and gown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. town-and-gown, town and gown: Wiktionary
  3. town and gown: Dictionary.com
  4. Town and gown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. town and gown: FreeDictionary.org

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  1. town-and-gown: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (town and gown)

noun:  (chiefly UK, idiomatic, sometimes capitalized) On the one hand, the members of the city, borough, or similar community near a university and, on the other hand, the students and faculty of the university itself, especially when understood as rivals in a state of tension or conflict.

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