Coaster

Quick meaning: Coaster is a noun meaning A person who originates from or inhabits a coastal area.

Meaning

A person who originates from or inhabits a coastal area.

More Meanings

1. A sailor (especially the master or pilot of a vessel) who travels only in coastal waters.
2. A merchant vessel that stays in coastal waters, especially one that travels between ports of the same country.
3. (Canada, US) Ellipsis of coaster trout (“the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in Lake Superior and Maine”).
4. (US) A cow from the coastal part of Texas.
5. Agent noun of coast: one who coasts.
6. Something that coasts or is used to coast.
7. (slang, dated) A prostitute, especially one of European descent, plying her trade in Chinese port towns.

Example Sentences

2021, Ernest Haycox, Karl May, Zane Grey, 50 Westerns But our market required a better quality than coasters and Mexican cattle, and we turned back up the country.

Thus, with ſhort Plummets Heav'ns deep will we ſound, / That vaſt Abyſs where humane Wit is drown'd! / In our ſmall Skiff we muſt not launce too far; / We here but Coaſters, not Diſcov'rers are.

The ranch's rangy coasters, the only saleable cattle they then held, could not compete with cattle from a growing number of Midwest farmer-feeders or with competitors stocking the northern ranges.

Overhead, the black flag with the white skull-and-crossbones symbolizing defiance of radio regulations fluttered limply atop the two-hundred-foot mast mounted on the converted coaster from which they operated.

Word Forms

• coasters

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