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Balmain basket weaver
noun
a trendy, leftist member of the middle class AUSTRALIA
Derogatory; after the affluent Sydney suburb of Balmain.- Basketweaver from Bailmain: A trendy, basically middle class, upwardly mobile, socially conscious, left-wing member of the Australian Labor Party and one who has no intention of manning the barricades for any cause whatsoever. Derisory. — Richard Beckett, The Dinkum Aussie Dictionary, p. 7, 1986
- As someone who’s been a republican since long before the Balmain Basket Weavers took up the cause, I don’t give much thought to the question of honesty among the Monarchists. — www.roadtosurfdom.com/surfdomarchives, 2003
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