'Merica
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of 'Merica
First recorded in 1800–05 ; by loss of initial, unaccented syllable of America ( def. ) (in the sense “United States of America”)
Example Sentences
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“A Working Man” molds the Levon character to Statham, making him a British soldier and tilting the book’s axis of evil away from “ ‘Merica good, everyone else bad.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
While arguments about whether it should be ‘Merica or ‘Murica might lead to fisticuffs in some quarters, a dominant spelling of the even the most outlandish spoken phrases typically rises above the rest, she adds.
From Time ● Sep. 12, 2016
She were a wild slip of a girl when I took service out in 'Merica.
From 'Me and Nobbles' by Amy Le Feuvre
They say there's bands of people up north who keep on with it and people in Germany and China and 'Merica and places.
From The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
One of the Africans next related, in 'Merica language,' their condition in their own country, their being kidnapped, the sufferings of the middle passage, their stay at Havana, the transactions on board the Amistad, &c.
From A Visit to the United States in 1841 by Joseph Sturge
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