Usually means: States on the edge; transitional.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. border states: Merriam-Webster
  2. Border States: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Border States: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. border states: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Border-States: Wordnik
  6. Border States: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Border States: Dictionary.com
  8. Border States (American Civil War), Border states (American Civil War), Border states (Civil War), Border states (Eastern Europe), Border states: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Border States: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. Border States: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. border states, Border states: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Border states)

noun:  In the American Civil War, the border states or the Border South were four, later five, slave states in the Upper South that primarily supported the Union.
noun:  Border states, or European buffer states, were the European nations that won their independence from the Russian Empire after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and ultimately the defeat of the German Empire and Austria-Hungary in World War I. During the interwar period, the nations of Western Europe implemented a border states policy, which aimed at uniting them in protection against the Soviet Union and communist expansionism.

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