green-carder

plural green-carders

1. alternativeAlternative form of green carder.

   In theory, the green-carder is identical to any other resident immigrant; in fact, this is not the case.

   1973, Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., Chicanos and Rural Poverty, page 36

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   The man with the fighting cock on his shirt was a Union green-carder who did not wish to cross the picket lines.

   1971, Peter Matthiessen, Sal si puedes: Cesar Chavez and the new American Revolution, page 17

   If a commuting citizen or green-carder becomes a resident, he and his resident dependents would become eligible for federal food stamps, state benefits to medical indigents, and county general assistance

   1978, Stephen H. Sosnick, Hired hands: seasonal farm workers in the United, page 422