interstater

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English

Etymology

From interstate +‎ -er.

Noun

interstater (plural interstaters)

  1. (chiefly Australia and US) One who, or that which, is from another state.
    • 1978, Victoria. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).:
      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.
    • 1991, Womanspeak:
      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.
    • 1996, Jennifer Anne Gregory, On the Homefront: Western Australia and World War II:
      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…
    • 2010, Kellie Andersen, Truck Gal, →ISBN, page 91:
      I had to remind myself every time I entered a highway; 'you are a local driver, not an interstater — take the next exit!'

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