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  • noun Plural form of townie.

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Examples

  • "My experience with townies is that they are so paranoid about sprawl that they oppose any new projects."

    Big Construction Plans for UVa at cvillenews.com 2003

  • My experience with townies is that they are so paranoid about sprawl that they oppose any new projects.

    Big Construction Plans for UVa at cvillenews.com 2003

  • Admittedly that was when I was living in a rough area where gangs of what used to be called townies, later chavs, and latterly hoodies, would roam and glare at you with impunity.

    ...and retire Alistair Myles 2006

  • Admittedly that was when I was living in a rough area where gangs of what used to be called townies, later chavs, and latterly hoodies, would roam and glare at you with impunity.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Alistair Myles 2006

  • Specifically, the middle-class and lower-middle-class voters Brown appealed to are what veteran Boston political commentator Jon Keller calls "townies," those multi-generational Massachusettsans who don't live in the state's campus nexuses, poor urban areas or affluent suburbs, but in the hardscrabble towns and cities on Boston's periphery.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • The local mob cannot be controlled by frightened townies, which is what we have.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • The local mob cannot be controlled by frightened townies, which is what we have.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • characterize the whole ruckus in terms of the "St. John's campus" - read as "townies" - and the need to let decisions be made outside the overpass;

    The ease of governing Ed Hollett 2007

  • They say the big thinkers behind Tony Blair's New Labour are "townies" with little sympathy for the countryside.

    GUNNING FOR THE HUNT 2008

  • Many elite colleges are in small or smaller towns and there is a real cultural divide between "townies" and college studies.

    Sound Politics: About that Duke Case 2006

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