clamdiggers

• A woman in clamdiggers and Keds sits pensively at a typewriter while, behind her, a handsome lug scoops up an enraptured and bosomy woman.
• Natives are called "clamdiggers," and those who leave-for college, marriage or a fling at the outside world-usually come back. —  The Big Apple
• To some devout City Islanders, covetous of what they have and suspicious of any change, "condo" conjures up the idea of "transient," a dirty word to the longtime islanders, known as "clamdiggers." —  The Big Apple
• The island instead became populated by small farmers, oystermen-residents still call themselves "clamdiggers" - and the Hellgate Pilots, who guided ships from Long Island Sound through the straits alongside Ward Island. —  The Big Apple
• To this day, natives are called clamdiggers, while those with, say, a quarter-century on the island earn the apparently coveted sobriquet mussel-sucker. —  The Big Apple

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