bridge-and-tunnel
adjective US informal
(Of a person) living in the suburbs and perceived as unsophisticated: a bridge-and-tunnel guy from Queens...
- He is a bridge-and-tunnel person, from Queens, in New York.
- If this seems like a chauvinistic putdown of the bridge-and-tunnel crowd, you know they're up to far worse.
- A straight bridge-and-tunnel guy unwittingly moves in with a gay man.
Origin
1980s: with reference to the routes used for commuting into New York.
- accountantship
- account book
- account day
- accounter
- account executive
- account for
- accounting
- accounting board
- accounting book
- accounting day
- accounting house
- accounting machine
- accounting period
- accounting table
- account keeper
- account ledger
- accountless
- accountment
- account rendered
- accounts book
- accounts payable
- accounts receivable
- accouple
- accouplement
- accoupling