Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A foreigner.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As a 14 year-old "auslander" (the German word for foreigner) I was astutely aware that I was different, but unaware that I would be reminded of the fact on many occasions.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: VIDEO: Austria Protests Israel Attack on Gaza Aid Convoy 2010
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It's always good politics to frame an attack on the auslander but China?
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So when I defended the guide from my personal experience, they attacked me as an auslander.
Frank Rich promotes Barack Obama. Ann Althouse 2007
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Nürnberg is the correct spelling – anything else is auslander gibberish …
Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again 2006
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FISHER: Yeah, auslander, foreigners, and the German word means outlanders, people from outside the country.
After the Wall: Germany, The Germans, and the Burdens of History 1995
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It means a groundhog, an earthcrawler, a dirt dweller, one who never goes into space, not of our tribe, not human, a goy, an auslander, a savage, beneath contempt.
Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957
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Paul Curley: "You know, I would say, as an American racing in Europe, I was definitely an outsider, and 'auslander.'"
OPB News 2009
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All that was needed abroad or at home was to repeat the same sentence more slowly at a puzzled auslander, if that didn't work it was polite to bellow it repeatedly while frothing at the mouth until puce.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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Lifelong Baltimoreans always spot a journalist imported from out of town, because an auslander will write about people sitting on the stoop.
Blog updates 2008
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The aufenthalterlaubnis I think you only need it if you are auslander or trying to bring someone, which was why my husband had to get his, but even there some ladies in the office said, oh you dont need it, and some said he did, so in the end we got it.
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