region rat

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. an inhabitant of northwest Indiana informal
    — Gingrich also fired, for no good reason, House Historian Raymond Smock, a former “Region Rat” who first introduced me to In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash.

词形变化

region rats plural

词源

From region + rat. Within Indiana, the northwest of the state is colloquially called the Region, originally short for the Calumet Region. The ‘rat’ appellation apparently derives from millrat as a pejorative term for steelworkers.
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