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rex-pat

noun

Etymology

Blend of repeat + expat. Attributed to Alan Levy, an expatriate who edited The Prague Post from 1990 until his death in 2004.

Definitions

  1. A repeat expatriate

    A repeat expatriate; one who becomes expatriated again.

    • A rex-pat is a returning expatriate, an ex-pat has been here, goes home to America, takes a job, maybe goes to law school, maybe does well in America but can't get Prague out of his or her blood and returns to Prague to live again.

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No curated loop yet for rex-pat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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