The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoosier State \Hoo"sier State\ Indiana; -- a nickname of obscure origin.
Wikipedia
The Hoosier State is an Amtrak passenger train that provides service on a 196-mile (315 km) route from Chicago to Indianapolis. It runs on the four days each week that the Cardinal does not run (departs Chicago Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; departs Indianapolis Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday). This gives the Chicago-to-Indianapolis market daily rail service. Iowa Pacific Holdings furnishes rolling stock and on-board service personnel. Operation of the train is subsidized by Indiana.
During fiscal year (FY) 2011, the Hoosier State carried approximately 37,000 passengers, a 10.9% increase over FY2010. During FY2011, the train had a total revenue of $836,057, an increase of 5% over FY2010.
Usage examples of "hoosier state".
The motorcade had come down a highway for most of the way, but in the regular city streets that had occupied maybe a quarter of the distance, there had been people on the sidewalks, waving to him while their governor extolled the virtues of the city and the Hoosier State.
Like his father, who claimed to represent the Hoosier State, Eliot was raised and educated and entertained on the Eastern Seaboard and in Europe.
Why don't you go back to the dear old Hoosier state and snap the trap on Morgan?
Like, for Indiana, there is a cardinal candle, the cardinal being the Hoosier state’.