Meanings
plural Baystaters
- A person from Massachusetts.
Rudolph Shultz of Massachusetts won the Highly Commended citation on a 46 lb. entry and another Baystater, Earle Ferguson, won the Commended award with a ...
1969, Shepherd, volume 142 more examples
Nutmegger? Baystater? College slider? A mid-week ticket at Otis Ridge, Mass., will cost you $10 on Tuesdays (for Connecticut residents) and Thursdays (for Massachusetts residents).
1996 September, Dick Needham, “Side Tracks”, in Ski, page 19E“Press, you may have grown up in Boston, but don't forget I'm from next door in Connecticut. Sorry to contradict you, Mr. Baystater, but in my experience the average person from Massachusetts may be liberal, but they're not ideologues: they're too pragmatic for that.”
2010, Piersen Carter, Exit America, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 237
Origin
From bay + stater. Massachusetts is sometimes known as the Bay State.
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