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interstater en · NOUN

Etymology

From interstate + -er.

Meanings

1. (Australia, US) One who, or that which, is from another state.
   • I had to remind myself every time I entered a highway; 'you are a local driver, not an interstater — take the next exit!' 2010, Kellie Andersen, Truck Gal, →ISBN, page 91:
   • It is alleged that a male child care worker from Canberra was targeted for arrest after refusing police entrance to an area of parkland where hundreds of interstaters were camped. 1991, Womanspeak:
   • But the only ships that came to salute the rusty hulks of a couple of old trawlers pensioned off against the jetty were an interstater once a fortnight, smartly painted Norwegian freighters in the apple season, and drab, dusty wheat ships… 1996, Jennifer Anne Gregory, On the Homefront: Western Australia and World War II:
   • The local operators and VicRail are not obtaining the business anyway; the interstaters are getting it and they are not putting 1 cent back into the coffers of Victoria. 1978, Victoria. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).:

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