a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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Origin:
1770–80; tour + -ist

Related forms

non·tour·ist, noun

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During that month the city, except for its main tourist arteries, is a radically different place from its usual self.

Or that archaeology can be an enormous boost for the tourist economy.

Bulky cameras scream tourist and make you more of a target for theft.

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tourist (ˈtʊərɪst)

—n
1.	a. a person who travels for pleasure, usually sightseeing and staying in hotels
	b. (as modifier): tourist attractions
2.	a person on an excursion or sightseeing tour
3.	a person travelling abroad as a member of a sports team that is playing a series of usually international matches
4.	Also called: tourist class the lowest class of accommodation on a passenger ship

—*adj*
5.	of or relating to tourist accommodation

tour'istic

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

tourist

first attested 1780, from tour (n.); tourist trap attested from 1939, in Graham Greene.

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tourist definition

jargon
A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, electronic mail, games and other trivial purposes. A tourist is one step below a luser.
Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms).
Compare twink, read-only user.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)

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"Unchecked, the tourist will climb over the fence and come right into your house to take pictures of you in your habitat. Cities mindful of tourists have built elaborate "tourist traps" which, luckily, work. Tourists are kept confined to these, and few escape. There is, of course, the type known as the "intrepid tourist." This one has to be watched carefully or he can become most annoying. Little wonder these are so often the target of terrorists. If there is an aspect of benign terror about the tourist, there is also a great deal of tourist in the terrorist. Terrorists travel with only one thing in mind, just like the tourist, and the specifics of places escape them both. Terrorists travel for the purpose of shooting unsuspecting foreigners, just as tourists travel for the purpose of shooting them with a camera."

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