Frostbelt

or Frost Belt

[ frawst-belt, frost- ]

noun

, (often lowercase)

1. Snowbelt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Frostbelt¹

First recorded in 1975–80; frost + belt

Example Sentences

From the agrarian South to the industrial North, from Frostbelt to Sunbelt, from the city street to the suburban cul-de-sac, a boundless prosperity was luring us to new places far from family and the old neighborhood.

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Surprisingly, some of the frostbelt towns that contributed to the migrant stream of the 1970s, like Toledo, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Ind., and Elmira, N.Y., stabilized in the 1980s.

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Before energy prices collapsed, the conventional wisdom held that America's economy was being split along have and have-not lines: a prosperous Sunbelt and a rusting Frostbelt.

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Migration drained the Frostbelt in the late 1970s.

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Most hockey coaches come from the frostbelt�from what Vairo, with an outsider's irony, refers to as "the Massachusetts-Minnesota hockey establishment."

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