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townie
noun- a townsperson, contrasted with a visiting student or summer visitor US, 1852
- On the way they passed the townies, who glared at them balefully, but the girls chattered and giggled and did not even turn their heads. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 228, 1957
- “No women.” Youngblood leaning back. “Townies, even?” — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 79, 1966
- They arrived in time to be scared by a group of drunken townies beating the bejabbers out of three or four hippy boys they’d caught in the lot. — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 67, 1967
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 213, 1968
- Sandy had imitated on the ferry ride home that night the townies tried to rape her. — Evan Hunter, Last Summer, p. 114, 1968
- Drugs and hard rock flooded Harvard Yard, spawned by a backwash of students, townies, and traveling hippies[.] — James Ellroy, Because the Night, p. 325, 1984
- I wasn’t a rebel, but I walked a little on the wild side by dating a leather-clad townie named Pinky[.] — Elissa Stein and Kevin Leslie, Chunks, p. 28, 1997
- any member of a subcultural urban adolescent grouping that seems to be defined by a hip-hop dress and jewellery sense UK
- [V]ariations on their type [chav], also known as Neds, Charvers and Townies, can be spotted across the UK. Their icons are Posh and Becks, Daniella Westbrook, singer Charlotte Church’s former boyfriend Stephen Johnson and the pop star Brian Harvey. — The Independent, 1 February 2004
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