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Brooklynite

Brooklynite

English

Noun

Brooklynite (plural Brooklynites)

  1. A person born and raised in Brooklyn.
    • 2003 October 31, Clyde Haberman, “NYC; Not Poifect, Dem Movies Of Brooklyn”, in New York Times:
      His collaborator was Robert Singer, a professor of English and film studies at Kingsborough Community College, who lamented this week that he and his fellow Brooklynites "have been archetyped to death."