Editing Hoosier (section)

==Other uses==
The word "hoosier" has been used in [[Greater St. Louis]] as a pejorative for an unintelligent or uncultured person.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-09-17|title=What's a Hoosier?|url=https://www.stlmag.com/api/content/49e243dc-5c8e-11e5-ad20-22000b078648/|access-date=2020-12-19|website=www.stlmag.com|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Holleman|first=Joe|title='Hoosier' deemed funniest slang word in Missouri|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/joe-holleman/hoosier-deemed-funniest-slang-word-in-missouri/article_d6a5c30d-5b0b-5af7-a5da-ceb7b04bf817.html|access-date=2020-12-19|website=STLtoday.com|date=30 April 2018|language=en|archive-date=2022-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418103717/https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/joe-holleman/hoosier-deemed-funniest-slang-word-in-missouri/article_d6a5c30d-5b0b-5af7-a5da-ceb7b04bf817.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Seely|first=Mike|title=Hoosiers|url=https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/hoosiers/Content?oid=2466480|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Riverfront Times|language=en|archive-date=2021-06-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625102912/https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/hoosiers/Content?oid=2466480|url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|Thomas E. Murray carefully analyzed the use of "hoosier" in St. Louis, Missouri, where it is the favorite epithet of abuse. "When asked what a Hoosier is," Murray writes, "St. Louisans readily list a number of defining characteristics, among which are 'lazy,' 'slow-moving,' 'derelict,' and 'irresponsible.'" He continues, "Few epithets in St. Louis carry the pejorative connotations or the potential for eliciting negative responses that hoosier does." He conducted tests and interviews across lines of age and race and tabulated the results. He found the term ecumenically applied. He also noted the word was often used with a modifier, almost redundantly, as in "some damn Hoosier".<br/>In a separate section Murray speaks of the history of the word and cites Baker and Carmony (1975) and speculates on why Hoosier (in Indiana a "neutral or, more often, positive" term) should remain "alive and well in St. Louis, occupying as it does the honored position of being the city's number one term of derogation." A radio broadcast took up where Murray left off. During the program ''[[Fresh Air]]'', [[Geoffrey Nunberg]], a language commentator, answered questions about regional nicknames. He cited [[Elaine Viets]], a ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch|Post-Dispatch]]'' columnist (also quoted by Paul Dickson), as saying that in St. Louis a "Hoosier is a low-life [[redneck]], somebody you can recognize because they have a car on concrete blocks in their front yard and are likely to have just shot their wife who may also be their sister."<ref name=twh/>}} The word is also encountered in [[sea shanties]]. In the book ''[[Sea shanty#Stan Hugill and Shanties from the Seven Seas|Shanties from the Seven Seas]]''<ref name="hugillShanties">{{cite book | title=Shanties from the Seven Seas | publisher=Mystic Seaport Museum | author=Hugill, Stan | year=1961 | location=Mystic, Connecticut | isbn=0913372706}}</ref> by Stan Hugill, in reference to its former use to denote [[cotton]]-stowers, who would move bales of cotton to and from the holds of ships and force them in tightly by means of [[jackscrew]]s.

A [[Hoosier cabinet]], often shortened to "hoosier", is a type of free-standing kitchen cabinet popular in the early decades of the twentieth century. Almost all of these cabinets were produced by companies located in Indiana and the name derives from the largest of them, the Hoosier Manufacturing Co. of [[New Castle, Indiana]]. Other Indiana businesses include [[Hoosier Racing Tire]] and the Hoosier Bat Company, manufacturer of wooden [[baseball bat]]s.

The [[RCA Dome]], former home of the [[Indianapolis Colts]], was known as the "Hoosier Dome" before [[RCA]] purchased the [[naming rights]] in 1994. The RCA Dome was replaced by [[Lucas Oil Stadium]] in 2008.