interstater
nounEtymology From interstate + -er.
- The local operators and VicRail are not obtaining the business anyway; the interstaters are getting it and they are not putting 1 cent back into the coffers of Victoria.1978, Victoria. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).:
- It is alleged that a male child care worker from Canberra was targeted for arrest after refusing police entrance to an area of parkland where hundreds of interstaters were camped.1991, Womanspeak:
2 more examples
- But the only ships that came to salute the rusty hulks of a couple of old trawlers pensioned off against the jetty were an interstater once a fortnight, smartly painted Norwegian freighters in the apple season, and drab, dusty wheat ships…1996, Jennifer Anne Gregory, On the Homefront: Western Australia and World War II:
- I had to remind myself every time I entered a highway; 'you are a local driver, not an interstater — take the next exit!'2010, Kellie Andersen, Truck Gal, →ISBN, page 91: