Locals near a campus

Usage examples of townies.

townies often accused troupers of double-dealing, but the townies were just as good at playing false.

Circus folk never stood up well against townies, let alone prominent ones.

He waited by himself at the edge of the lot until the stream of townies emerging from the big top heralded the end of the show.

Harry was wringing his hands and shouting warnings from the sidelines, and the oversized trouper, Tor, had two of the other townies by their collars.

He strode past loitering townies along the midway and entered the pad room where the troupers dressed and prepared for their entrance.

They knew the wisdom of strategic retreat when townies became hostile.

One of the sideshow talkers arrived to herd the townies to the next attraction and on to the big tent for the show.

She and her partner Junebug had themselves a sweet setup, selling lemonade and foot-long hot dogs to the townies at their grab joint, and their Coachman trailer was as big as some apartments.

By the time she was done, I knew how to tell which townies had money in their pockets and which ones had less than I did.

A little while later Squeezebox gave word to open up, and the townies started streaming in.

Squeezebox, Junebug, and some of the others came over to get the townies to line up and make sure nobody started digging early.

Instead, Brownie pulled me over to where none of the townies could hear us, with Squeezebox and Lorinda following.

When I see the way Feifer checks her out, I know the Montauk townies still have a chance to win this shoot-out by the sea.

For the most part, so little happens to us townies, it seems ungenerous not to share a good tale.

While Brockport has never been besieged by anything remotely resembling a crime epidemic, like so many other college towns, the only recurrent problem seems to be weekend bar brawls between drunken students and local rowdies, who are derogatorily referred to as townies by the mostly out-of-town student body.