green-carder

green-carder (plural green-carders)

1. Alternative form of green carder
   • 1971, Peter Matthiessen, Sal si puedes: Cesar Chavez and the new American Revolution, page 17:

     The man with the fighting cock on his shirt was a Union green-carder who did not wish to cross the picket lines.

   • 1973, Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., Chicanos and Rural Poverty, page 36:

     In theory, the green-carder is identical to any other resident immigrant; in fact, this is not the case.

   • 1978, Stephen H. Sosnick, Hired hands: seasonal farm workers in the United, page 422:

     If a commuting citizen or green-carder becomes a resident, he and his resident dependents would become eligible for federal food stamps, state benefits to medical indigents, and county general assistance