bridge-and-tunnel
See also: bridge and tunnel
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editFrom the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the fact that road travel to Manhattan Island requires passage over a bridge or through a tunnel.
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editbridge-and-tunnel (not comparable)
- (New York City, slang, derogatory) Of people who travel to Manhattan via bridge or tunnel from surrounding communities.
- 1990 July, Joe Bob Briggs, “My Life as Joe Bob Briggs”, in Texas Monthly, →ISSN, page 132:
- "Tonight we get the Bridge-and-Tunnel People." He said this like, "Tonight the Nazis attack."
"The Bridge-and-Tunnel People?"
"They come from Jersey and Long Island to get drunk and have a good time."
- 1999 August 1, Bernard Stamler, “Whose Hamptons Are They Anyway?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- And much to the consternation of their city cousins, many of whom view them with the same disdain they reserve in the other three seasons for the bridge-and-tunnel people who dare to cross the Hudson and East Rivers for a bit of Manhattan glamour, they seem to be taking over.
- 2003, James St. James, Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland, →ISBN, →OL, page 67:
- The worst drug calamity, the worst-case scenario, was that you accidentally took too much ecstasy and were actually nice to a Bridge-and-Tunnel person.
- 2009 March 9, Flowers for Your Grave (Castle), season 1, episode 1, spoken by Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion):
- Well, you're not bridge-and-tunnel. No trace of the boroughs when you talk. So that means Manhattan, that means money.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bridge-and-tunnel.