Detroiter

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noun

A native or inhabitant of Detroit.

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Meanings

nounDetroiter (plural Detroiters)

plural Detroiters

  1. A native or inhabitant of Detroit.

    If you're a Detroiter who needs a police officer, it will take 58 minutes to get help -- more than five times what it takes elsewhere in the United States.

    2013 July 19, Aaron Smith, “16 things that are wrong in Detroit”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2024
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    Suddenly, the hardscrabble, gritty Detroiters are in need of a savior – someone to rescue us from all this grittiness and strife, because that’s what we’ve been waiting for all this time, right?

    2017 October 5, Aaron Foley, “Why Detroit’s city storyteller wants to ban the word ‘gritty’”, in CNN

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APA

Detroiter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Detroiter

MLA

“Detroiter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Detroiter. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Detroiter,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Detroiter.

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