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East Ender en · NOUN

Etymology

From East End + -er (suffix denoting residency).

Meanings

1. A native or inhabitant of London's East End.
   • When Professor Huxley lived as a medical officer in the East of London he acquired a knowledge of the actual condition of the life of many of its populace which led him long afterwards to declare that the surroundings of the savages of New Guinea were much more conducive to the leading of a decent human existence than those in which many of the East-Enders live. 1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out:

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