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bridge and tunnel

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Alternative spelling of bridge-and-tunnel.

alt-of, alternative, not-comparable

Examples

“"On the weekends, we get all the bridge and tunnel people who try to get in," he said. Elizabeth Fondaras, a pillar of the city’s conservative social scene, who has just told Steve Rubell she had never tried to get into Studio 54 for fear of being rejected, asked who the bridge and tunnel people were. "Those people from Queens and Staten Island and those places," he said.”
“I had said to the team, "We can't go to New Jersey. What would they call us, the Bridge and Tunnels?"”
““You’d get everyone from tourists to bridge and tunnel people in the club.””

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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