Outside
Proper noun
The United States excluding Alaska, (especially) the contiguous 48 states south of Canada.
Usage- US usage
- Slang
- Synonyms
- Examples
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She's going Outside for Christmas.
More examples (2)
'When did you leave the Outside?' asked a blue-eyed, blonde, shaggy man. (The Outside means anywhere but Alaska—a man who has been long in the country falls into the idea of considering himself in a kind of a prison, and refers to the rest of the world as lying beyond the door of this.)
Fairbanks North Star Borough school board candidate Michael Humphrey attempted to import one of the most distasteful elements of the Outside culture wars into Fairbanks on Saturday through his deployment of hate speech targeting transgender children.