(TOO.rawn)
n.
A particularly clueless or annoying tourist (tourist + moron).
Example Citation:
"Rolling down the windows" is a snowboarding expression for anyone on the hill spinning his arms in a wild attempt to regain his balance.
It's a term that captures the inelegant flailing perfectly, and once you're in on the joke, you can stand near the bottom of a ski slope and laugh yourself silly watching people "roll down the windows." ...
I can't even get up on skis in order to roll down the windows. You might say I can't even get the car out of the garage. If I could, I would most likely be a member of the group the boarders like to call "SPORS" (Stupid People On Rental Skis).
Instead, I exist simply as a "touron" (half tourist, half moron) who has ventured into the area to take in the apres ski culture of Northeast Ohio's two most popular downhill destinations.
— Tim Piai, "The ski's the limit," The Plain Dealer, January 24, 2003
Earliest Citation:
Over at U.S. 192 and State Road 535, westbound touron — (a combo of tourists and morons, according to a local dj) — are constantly making sudden U-turns from the left lane, causing oodles of rear-end wrecks.
— "The Road Toad," Orlando Sentinel, September 29, 1991
Also:
New code words are being shouted in locker rooms and study halls, new notes are being passed, new insults hurled. These just in from the front: ...
touron n. A tourist, usually an annoying one.
— "Say wha?", The Washington Post, September 20, 1987
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