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- noun Plural form of
townie .
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Examples
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"My experience with townies is that they are so paranoid about sprawl that they oppose any new projects."
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My experience with townies is that they are so paranoid about sprawl that they oppose any new projects.
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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
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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
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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.
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The local mob cannot be controlled by frightened townies, which is what we have.
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The local mob cannot be controlled by frightened townies, which is what we have.
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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
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They say the big thinkers behind Tony Blair's New Labour are "townies" with little sympathy for the countryside.
GUNNING FOR THE HUNT 2008
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Many elite colleges are in small or smaller towns and there is a real cultural divide between "townies" and college studies.
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