Tourist
noun
1.
a person who is traveling, especially for pleasure.
2.
tourist class.
adverb
3.
in tourist-class accommodations, or by tourist-class conveyance:
to travel tourist.
noun
1.
a person who travels for pleasure, usually sightseeing and staying in hotels
(as modifier): tourist attractions
2.
a person on an excursion or sightseeing tour
3.
a person travelling abroad as a member of a sports team that is playing a series of usually international matches
4.
Also called tourist class. the lowest class of accommodation on a passenger ship
adjective
5.
of or relating to tourist accommodation
jargon
A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, electronic mail, games and other trivial purposes. A tourist is one step below a luser.
Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS culture’s penchant for six-letterisms).
Compare twink, read-only user.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)
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- Tourista
noun 1. traveler’s diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Latin America.
- Tourist-class
noun 1. the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
- Tourist-court
noun 1. motel.
- Tourist-home
noun 1. a private home with rooms for rent, usually for one night, to tourists, travelers, etc.
- Touristic
adjective 1. of, relating to, or typical of tourists or tourism: She embarked on her itinerary with high touristic fervor.