See landsider on Wiktionary
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"text": "He wanted to stop at Petra's bunk and tell her about his home, about what his birthdays were usually like, just tell her it was his birthday so she'd say something about it being a happy one. But nobody told birthdays. It was childish. It was what landsiders did.",
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"ref": "1987, Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 82:",
"text": "We'll be going out with the tide, with an extra five knot of current running where the river is usually slowest. I just thought you might be in a hurry to move at this end, what with the way your friends are keeping out of sight down with the codfish smell. The way I hear tell, you landsider don't favor fish odor too much.",
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