Detroiter

English

Etymology

From Detroit +‎ -er.

Noun

Detroiter (plural Detroiters)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Detroit.
    • 2013 July 19, Aaron Smith, “16 things that are wrong in Detroit”, in CNN Business‎[1]:
      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.
    • 2017 October 5, Aaron Foley, “Why Detroit’s city storyteller wants to ban the word ‘gritty’”, in CNN‎[2]:
      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?
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