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Floribama en · PROPN

Etymology

Blend of Florida + Alabama.

Meanings

1. The panhandle area of Florida, which borders on Alabama and has cultural similarities to Alabama.
   • I will always be a country boy at heart and I'm proud to call the South my home. Thank you to Pensacola Beach, Lobster Fest, Floribama and the Redneck Riviera! 2006, N O Slak, The American Nutcracker: Time for Some Old School Crackiny, →ISBN, page 85:
   • Back then we lived in a tiny burg in the Florida panhandle—an area not named Floribama without reason. 2017, Tera Lynn Childs, Straight Stalk, →ISBN:
   • I lived in Anchorage Alaska for 15 years prior to my moving to Floribama. 2002 February 26, Joshua Buker, “Re: C'mon Break-Up!”, in rec.autos.makers.saturn (Usenet), retrieved 11 Nov 2017:
   • We were on Cape San Blas (or was it St. George's Island?) in the Floribama Panhandle. 2003 September 29, Lyra Belacqua, “Re: Me so horny, matey”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet), retrieved 11 Nov 2017:
   • We were there this past summer ... that part of Floribama is nice. 2007 October 3, pseudomodo, “Re: Wanna watch me lampoon myself & overact?”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet), retrieved 11 Nov 2017:
   • BBQ in Floribama ain't all that bad either. (Wuz there again last week.) 2007 May 21, Tinman, “Re: Ginos or Pats?”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet), retrieved 11 Nov 2017:
   • “Step right up, folks, the Loch Ness Monster of Floribama's Perdido Shores!” I clowned. 2004, Jack Beach, Without A Net: Stories of Our Risky Flights Towards Love, Loss, and Home, →ISBN, page 168:
   • Up here in Florgia & Floribama it's a bit colder but we've cut our heating bill by 90%. 2011 January 13, beerlet dhiblang, “Re: It's SOOO Cold Outside...”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet), retrieved 11 Nov 2017:
   • Mr. Roxy, veteran of Anti-Dispatcher Riots of the '20s, was picked up by Mobile Unit at his home in Floribama after shooting off his right foot accidentally with obsolete souvenir compressor pistol. 1970, Keith Laumer, The frozen planet and other stories, page 110:

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