come-here

noun

come-here

noun

1

US, Virginia, Colloquial A recent arrival to a place; a person who has only lately come to live in the area.

There are many other ways of catching crabs, including chicken-necking (a sure sign of a come-here), and traps or pots.1997, William H. Turner, Chesapeake Boyhood: Memoirs of a Farm Boy, page 189:

Synonyms: blow-in, comeling, newling, offcomer

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.

Learn more