East Endern.
/ˌiːst ˈɛndə/, U.S. /ˌist ˈɛndər/ A native or inhabitant of a city's East End, esp. of the East End of London.
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1821 Sporting Mag. Nov. 50/1 ‘It is unhandsome conduct on the part of Brown,’ the East-enders roared out.
1851 Glasgow Past & Present I. 163 No one need feel surprised that the east-enders think they can do little wrong in taking a leaf out of the fashionable west-end book.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Apr. 1/1 The East-enders have several advantages..over the West-enders.
1906 G. R. Sims Living London (rev. ed.) III. 53/2 It may be the desire of the East-Ender to get more for his money.
1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 240 Twenty years ago they would almost all have been full of rough, tough, friendly East-Enders.
1990 Sun 20 Oct. 26/4 Eastender Gary Carter should be having a right cockney knees-up tonight.
2001 T. Snyders & J. O' Rourke Namely Vancouver 66 At one point in the 1970s, a rough bunch of East Enders known as the Clark Park Gang operated in the area.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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