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Young person carrying weapon in town ... (8)

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I believe the answer is:

yarmouth

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'town' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'young person carrying weapon' is the wordplay.
'young person' becomes 'youth' ('youth' can be a synonym of 'young person').
'carrying' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'weapon' becomes 'arm' (I've seen this before).
'youth' going around 'arm' is 'YARMOUTH'.

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for yarmouth that I've seen before include "27 [ISLAND] town" , "Peggotty's port (Norfolk)" , "Isle of Wight town (Great in Norfolk)" , "IOW resort" , "Norfolk resort" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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