east coast

1. 1.

   the eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.)

   Broadergeographical area

   Part ofEast

Questions about east coast

What does east coast mean?

east coast means "the eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.)".

Is east coast a common word?

east coast is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.