coalcracker (pluralcoal crackers)

1. (US,slang) A native or established resident of the traditionalcoal-mining area of northeasternPennsylvania; a worker in the mines of this region.
   • 1998 October, “Top Ten Lists: Pizza Parlors”, inCoalRegion.com, retrieved29 October 2016:

     Our first coal region poll, and what a great one it was!Coal Crackers sure do love their pizza.

   • 2008, Gene Gomolka,Coal Cracker's Son,→ISBN,Back cover (Google books):

     Pawel Gobol is Joey's humble father, acoal cracker who worked in the mines since he was 15.

   • 2016 March 20, Mark Gilger Jr., “Revelers celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Irish history at Girardville parade”, inThe Republican-Herald, Pennsylvania, US, retrieved29 October 2016:

     Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Mike Stack . . . said his grandfather was a “coal cracker from Girardville.”

• Often used with the connotation that the person so designated comes from amodest,blue-collar background.

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