(US) A working-class citizen in a metropolitan area.
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A person who lives in a city or town, or has an urban outlook.
1999, Richard D. Lewis, When Cultures Collide: Managing Successfully Across Cultures, page 191,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.
2002, Graeme Davison, Rural Sustainability in Historical Perspective, Chris Cocklin, Jacqui Dibden (editors), Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia, University Of New South Wales Press, page 40,In the 1940′s, a social survey of Victorian country towns found a similar gap between the interests and outlooks of farmers and townies, and an underlying fear on the part of the townsfolk.
2005, Marc Brodie, Chapter 9: The Politics of Rural Nostalgia between the Wars, Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie (editors), Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia, page 9.9,In that sense, the townies, not the farmers, were the inheritors of a pioneer capacity for hard work.
2008, Jim Sharman, Blood & Tinsel: A Memoir, Melbourne University Publishing, page 18,Earlier, there would probably have been a grudge match between two townies, or locals.
