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town⋅ie

[tou-nee]
–noun Informal.
a resident of a town, esp. a nonstudent resident of a college town.
Also, townee, towny.


Origin:
1820–30; town + -ie
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town·ie also town·y   (tou'nē)   
n.   pl. town·ies Informal
A permanent resident of a town, especially a resident of a college town who is academically unaffiliated with the local college or university.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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townie [ˈtɑʊni]

  1. n.
    a permanent (nonstudent) resident of a college town. : The townies get upset when we make a lot of noise on Sundays.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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