Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bridge and tunnel

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English

Syllables: bridge and -tun-nel
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative spelling of bridge-and-tunnel.

Example Sentences

""On the weekends, we get all the bridge and tunnel people who try to get in," he said. Elizabeth Fondaras, a pillar of the city’s conservative social scene, who has just told Steve Rubell she had never tried to get into Studio 54 for fear of being rejected, asked who the bridge and tunnel people were. "Those people from Queens and Staten Island and those places," he said."
"I had said to the team, "We can't go to New Jersey. What would they call us, the Bridge and Tunnels?""
"“You’d get everyone from tourists to bridge and tunnel people in the club.”"

Questions

What does bridge and tunnel mean?: Alternative spelling of bridge-and-tunnel.

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