Definition of "bicoastal" [bicoastal]

• Relating to both the east and west coasts of the United States, as: (adjective)
• Traveling frequently between coasts as part of a business or living arrangement: "the early generation of bicoastal airline commuters” ( Elizabeth Mehren). (adjective)
• Located or developed chiefly along the two coasts: a bicoastal economy. (adjective)
• Coast-to-coast: bicoastal telephone calls. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And those of us who are old enough to remember what the economy was like in the 1970s and the long gas lines, what it was like in the 1980s when we had the so-called bicoastal economy and my state and Senator Harkin's state had double-digit unemployment in county after country --"
• "The food stamp program, because it goes to people in need, worked very well in the 1980s when, first of all, we had the so-called bicoastal economy."
• "Once largely a bicoastal trend, tricked-out food trucks are rolling into Indy, steering stepped-up street food and gourmet-fusion fare onto our plates."