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Yankeeland
Slang
n.
the United States.
1832
 
(1915)
 
There are many who "guess" and "calculate" and "expect" from Yankee land.
1839
 
(1964)
 
. . . a party of strolling players from Yankee-land [were performing].
1918
 
"They say thet William Lyon Mackenzie hiself escaped tuh Yankeeland by dressin' up ez a woman in petticoats."