Well attestedIndirect, via a person or title
Texpat
noun · first attested 2014
Texans abroad borrowed the vocabulary of expatriates, as though leaving the state were leaving the country.
A Texan living outside Texas.
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- 2014
- Part of speech
- noun
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Texpat
The word blends Texas and expat and was in American journalism by 2014, when the New York Times used it for the clientele a Texas brewery hoped to find in Brooklyn. Its mirror image, Mexpat, means a foreigner living in Mexico. The two show the same ending pulling in opposite directions: one names people who left, the other people who arrived.
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