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New Jerseyite

American  
[noo jur-zee-ahyt] / ˈnu ˈdʒɜr ziˌaɪt /

noun

  • New Jerseyites
    plural
  1. New Jerseyan.


adjective

  1. New Jerseyan.

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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

One cartoonist who helped slay the stereotyped two-line gag was a bald, weedy-looking New Jerseyite named George Price, who last month rounded out his tenth year as one of The New Yorker's most delirious funnymen.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

Another person who gravitated to S&P was Alan Kotok, a plump, chinless, thick-spectacled New Jerseyite in Samson's class.

From Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 by Steven Levy

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