Professional gamblers have a cushy racket in college football because old grads and even townies of college localities are sentimental bettors and easy to separate from their money.

School is an ivory tower on the hill; it nestles in the gated groves of academe. It’s residents do not mix with “townies.”

In Spike Lee's movie School Daze you play a townie who's very hostile to the college students from out of town.

[Hamlet] was only repeating the phrase of an ordinary English rustic when jeering at a “townie”—whom he suspected of being a gutter-snipe—that “He don’t know a hawk from a hernshaw”.

From being a born-and-bred townie from north London, to a 36-year-old part-time farmer and full-time businessman is no mean achievement.

The term cockney originally meant cock’s egg or misshapen egg such as a young hen might lay, in other words a lily-livered townie as opposed to a strong countryman.

Here I parted with my fellow-townies, whose home shed at Millhouses covers fields where I played as a child.

The modern Aussie is a townie through and through. Australia is the least densely populated country on earth; it is also among the most highly urbanised.

In the 1940′s, a social survey of Victorian country towns found a similar gap between the interests and outlooks of farmers and townies, and an underlying fear on the part of the townsfolk.

In that sense, the townies, not the farmers, were the inheritors of a pioneer capacity for hard work.

Earlier, there would probably have been a grudge match between two townies, or locals.

Racial isolation is so strong that in the early 1970s there were only 388 blacks among the 38,488 residents of South Boston, and only 76 among the 15,353 “Townies” of Charlestown.

By fall 1974, however, new impulses broke through and on September 25, three hundred Townies organized the Charlestown branch of ROAR

There were also a few black families in the projects and some Italians who spilled over from the North End, but otherwise Charlestown was a homogeneous hill of working-class Micks and their families living in tight rows of colonial and triple-decker houses. The Townies. And every Townie knew everyone in Town.

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