westie

1. (informal) A West Highland White Terrier.Examples: "Pet owners often trim their Westies with clippers and scissors to save expense."; "A Westie fancier, Colonel Edward Malcolm, is said to have had a reddish-colored dog who was shot by hunters who mistook the dog for a fox."; "Westies may be small in stature but they have huge personalities."informal

2. (slang, derogatory) An inhabitant of the western suburbs of a city or town, stereotyped as of working class status and poor.Examples: "Take, for example, Sydney′s Westies, the inhabitants of the city′s much-maligned western suburbs."; "Being called a ‘Westie’ was (and is) regarded as an insult, although some Westies have now begun to proudly embrace the rich cultural identity the label also signifies."; "Mark Latham had developed a reputation as something of a bovver boy Sydney Westie."Australiaderogatoryslang

3. (slang, derogatory) An inhabitant of the western suburbs of a city or town, stereotyped as of working class status and poor.Examples: "For Aucklanders who know what it means, this person is a Westie. — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.sysadmin.recovery/msg/66ad493f6f24113d"; "At least Bobs claims he's a Westie and he hasn't moved there as a social reject. — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.sport.rugby.union/msg/9ad2d5146251ef6a"; "He started singing for us ... and by then we were over the whole Westie party scene because it was too violent and agro and too many munters."New-Zealandderogatoryslang

4. (slang, Contemporary Christian) An intense fan of the Christian singer Matthew West.Examples: "The Westies in the crowd went wild when Matthew took the stage and sang Happy."slang

5. (US) A member of a criminal gang based in Hell's Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan.Examples: "Another killing was sparked when Tommy Hess, the bartender at Club 596, on Tenth Avenue, slapped the girl friend of a young Westie.[…]Hess went on a list of some 60 homicides police say were committed by the Westies."; "The Intrepid skim allegedly went from the union to a West Side gang of Irish toughs known as the Westies. (In an unrelated incident, several Westies are currently on trial for kidnapping, loan-sharking, extortion and murder.[…])"US

6. (slang, Canadian Military) A member of the Royal Westminster Regiment.slang