IN

United States of America
United States of America

Abbreviation of Indiana, a state of the United States of America.


Indy

But while Dial may have all the right pieces on the board to make for another classic entry in the saga, Indy’s latest adventure is a lackluster attempt at reconciling the old with the new.

2023 June 28, Lauren Coates, “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny review: Harrison Ford goes to the whip”, in AV Club:

(informal) The fictional character Indiana Jones.


Indiana

en-proper noun

Indiana (countable and uncountable, plural Indianas)

From indian + -a. From “Indiana Territory” dating from 1800, noting the territory's large Native American Indian population. From indian territory.

A placename
A state of the United States.

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Indianapolis

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From English Indiana + Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city state”), equivalent to Indiana + -polis.

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The capital city of Indiana, United States and the county seat of Marion County, with which the city is consolidated.


Hoosier

Uncertain. See Wikipedia's article on the subject for theories. Popularized by the 1830 John Finley poem “The Hoosier’s Nest”.

Indiana’s Borderlanders called themselves Hoosiers, came from the backcountry of Kentucky and western Virginia, and were ambivalent about slavery.

2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 16, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

A native or resident of the U.S. state of Indiana.

Someone associated with Indiana University, for example as a student, alum, or sports team member, or as a fan. This is also the university's sports mascot.

(US, historical) A kind of cupboard or dresser with shelves, drawers, etc.; a kitchenet.


Hoosier

Less well known but perhaps even more interesting than Stephenson is Court Asher, the second "gentleman" from Indiana. Asher is a more convincing bigot than Stephenson, one more homegrown and more Hoosier than the puffed-up grand dragon, […]

1947, John Bartlow Martin, Indiana: An Interpretation, page xi:

That's not very Hoosier, is it?

2009, Alden Studebaker, Hoosieritis: The Contagious Condition That Is Indiana, page 51:

“Somehow the tradition doesn't seem very Hoosier.”

2009, Alexander Lawrence, Blest Be the Tie, book 1:

Characteristic of or pertaining to the American state of Indiana.


Indianan

Indianans thought of it as a war far away in which they could not become involved.

1958, Olin Dee Morrison, Indiana, Hoosier State, volume 4, page 66:

(uncommon, proscribed) Synonym of Hoosier (“a native or inhabitant of Indiana”)


Hoosier State

United States of America
United States of America#English

The official nickname for the state of Indiana in the United States of America.


BMV

Bureau of Motor Vehicles
w:Department of Motor Vehicles

(US) Initialism of Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the equivalent to a Department of Motor Vehicles for the states of Indiana, Ohio, and Maine.


Indianapolitan

The Indianapolitans seem to be very civil and orderly people, a pattern of sobriety and good behavior, if we can infer anything on these points from the smallness of their police force, for this body, considered indispensable in most cities for the preservation of order, in this city numbers only eight, including a chief.

1857, J. B. B., “A City of the West”, in The New England Farmer, volume 9, page 387:

1885 October 17, “A Missing Indianapolitan”, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, retrieved 2014-10-03:

If the Indianapolitans could declare and enforce an effective embargo upon all outsiders, it is evident that Indianapolis would languish and die.

1892 September 17, “Indianapolis, New-York, and Cholera”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2014-10-02:

The earliest sculpture by an Indianapolitan was the statue of Benjamin Franklin by John Mahoney, erected in 1874 above the front doorway of the Franklin Insurance Company building in the southeast segment of the Circle.

1954 June 20, Eva Draegert, “The Fine Arts in Indianapolis, 1875–1880”, in Indiana Magazine of History, volume 50, number 2, Trustees of Indiana University, page 105:


Northwest Territory

(historical) A former territory of the United States that consisted of the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, plus part of Minnesota. It existed from 1787 to 1803.


region rat

From region + rat. Within Indiana, the northwest of the state is colloquially called the Region, originally short for the Calumet Region. The ‘rat’ appellation apparently derives from millrat as a pejorative term for steelworkers.

Gingrich also fired, for no good reason, House Historian Raymond Smock, a former “Region Rat” who first introduced me to In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash.

1975, James B. Lane, Steel Shavings, volume 31, page 2:

“Ask any region rat,” said Langbehn, referring to denizens of northwest Indiana. “When the wind is off the lake, you can smell it all the way down to Crown Point. It’s like a sulfur compound, clearly a steel-mill smell.”

2004 July 1, Illinois Information Service Press Summary, issue:

Paula Evans, author of The Isle of Iona, was born in Gary, Indiana, named for Elbert Gary of judiciary fame (with apologies to Meredith Willson). She has accepted her fate as a lifelong Hoosier and Region Rat.

2013, Paula Evans, Everybody Loves Amy, back cover

Tens of thousands of longtime residents here proudly wear the region rat reputation, and they will never see themselves as anything else, until death do them part.

2017, Jerry Davich, Crooked Politics in Northwest Indiana, page 24:

(Indiana, informal) an inhabitant of northwest Indiana


Greendale

An unincorporated community in Yolo County, California.

An unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio.

A village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.


Hoosierish

en-adj

Hoosierish (comparative more Hoosierish, superlative most Hoosierish)

more Hoosierish (comparative)
most Hoosierish (superlative)

(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a Hoosier.


Hoosierism

en-noun

Hoosierism (countable and uncountable, plural Hoosierisms)

The attitudes, behaviors, or speech style of a Hoosier.


Hoosier Alley

(US, meteorology) A region of active tornadoes around the area of Indiana, also including sections of Illinois and Kentucky.