Locals
noun
- A person who lives near a given place.
"It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists."
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
"I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6."
- A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
"The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local."
- One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
"I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink."
- A locally scoped identifier.
"Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable."
Total: 8 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Locals"
Locals is a 6-letter word that scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words With Friends.
Using "Locals" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "locals" is a low-scoring word.