Definitions
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- noun pejorative A person who lives at low altitude - used by those living at higher altitudes
- noun physics An inhabitant of or
observer in a universe withtwo spatial dimensions .
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Examples
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I grew up as something native Vermonters refer to as a flatlander, a person from New York or New Jersey who visits the state to ski, to hike, to watch the leaves turn in the fall.
Water Witches Chris Bohjalian 1995
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Everywhere in human space a flatlander is a schnook who never gets above the atmosphere.
Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994
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Everywhere in human space a flatlander is a schnook who never gets above the atmosphere.
Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969
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Everywhere in human space a flatlander is a schnook who never gets above the atmosphere.
Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1968
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A lifelong actor and performer, Lorber — a Democrat — got into politics in 2005 when he ran for and won election to a House seat in Burlington, despite being a "flatlander" — or non-native Vermonter.
Archive 2008-01-01 Will 2008
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A lifelong actor and performer, Lorber — a Democrat — got into politics in 2005 when he ran for and won election to a House seat in Burlington, despite being a "flatlander" — or non-native Vermonter.
DesignerBlog Will 2008
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The bartender welcomed me as a "flatlander" which I guess I am, but only by residence, not by spirit.
badger Diary Entry badger 2003
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The thing I didn’t know about mountains when I was what my husband rudely calls a flatlander and the rest of the world calls a Midwesterner is that often the valleys between mountain peaks are significantly higher than sea level.
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The thing I didn’t know about mountains when I was what my husband rudely calls a flatlander and the rest of the world calls a Midwesterner is that often the valleys between mountain peaks are significantly higher than sea level.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide Success Part 5 2009
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The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back.
A June Defection Berit Ellingsen 2011
john commented on the word flatlander
In northern New England this refers to any non-native, but especially to someone from southern New England.
December 30, 2007