dirtsider

plural dirtsiders

1. derogatoryoftenliteratureSomeone who lives on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to in space.

   As a dirtsider, the idea of dying in the cold of space terrified him, though he'd never admit it to his space-loving mate.

   2010, Shayla Kersten, Angel Moon, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 52

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   He really hadn't been in space before. You can always tell a dirtsider by the twinkle in their eyes at the idea of seeing their planet from above.

   1998, Jerry Oltion, Where Sea Meets Sky, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 23

   So you tell me, Senyor Parrige, how many habitats would be willing to take on their maximum possible population load in the form of half-starved, uneducated, indigent, disease-ridden dirtsiders who know nothing of habitat life and have no skills that are of much use in space?

   2001, Roger MacBride Allen, The Depths of Time, Random House, →ISBN, page 378