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bridge and tunnel en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative spelling of bridge-and-tunnel.
    • "On the weekends, we get all the bridge and tunnel people who try to get in," he said. Elizabeth Fondaras, a pillar of the city’s conservative social scene, who has just told Steve Rubell she had never tried to get into Studio 54 for fear of being rejected, asked who the bridge and tunnel people were. "Those people from Queens and Staten Island and those places," he said. 1977 December 14, Enid Nemy, “To Be Thin, Beautiful and Cheek-to-Jowl”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
    • I had said to the team, "We can't go to New Jersey. What would they call us, the Bridge and Tunnels?" 1984, Dan Jenkins, Life Its Ownself: The Semi-Tougher Adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett and Them, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →OL, page 18:
    • “You’d get everyone from tourists to bridge and tunnel people in the club.” 2011 June 29, Alexis Swerdloff, “Fly by Night”, in The New York Times, →ISSN: