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Trill-I-Am on Aug 31, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015)

I've never seen the plural word backpackers used as a singular synonym for hostel.

toomanybeersies on Aug 31, 2016 [–]

It appears to be a Australian/New Zealand English term, I guess it's abbreviated from backpackers' hostel. Somewhere along the line the apostrophe was lost, so now it's backpackers.

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