Jerseyite
Americannoun
adjective
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A blue-collar New Jerseyite seeks fame with a surrogate family at Manhattan’s Studio 54.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2020
“You guys know that I was a 400-pound Filipino woman before this?” shouted Johnny LoPresto, the event’s MC, a thick-necked New Jerseyite with slick silver hair.
From The Guardian • May 1, 2019
"In all honesty, I will never be able to belong," says Bruce Elliott, a New Jerseyite who married a local woman and bought the Chatham hardware store.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frederick Reimold Lehlbach, the other potent New Jerseyite, is a Newark lawyer, tax specialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I presume your companions are older than yourself?" questioned the prying Jerseyite, his small eyes glistening.
From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Standish, Burt L.
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