townie

1. (UK, US) A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university.Examples: "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."UKUS

2. (UK) A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways.Examples: "[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."UK

3. (UK) A person familiar with the town (urbanised centre of a city) and with going out on the town; a street-wise person.UK

4. (UK, derogatory) A chav.Synonyms: synonyms at chavUKderogatory

5. (US) A working-class citizen in a metropolitan area.US

6. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A person who lives in a city or town, or has an urban outlook.Examples: "Bobby Wick stormed through the tents of his Company, rallying, rebuking, mildly, as is consistent with the Regulations, chaffing the faint-hearted [...] comforting the panic-stricken with rude speech, and more than once tending the dying who had no friends — the men without "townies"[.]"; "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."AustraliaNew-ZealandUKinformal