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hoi polloi noun the common people; the unwashed masses UK, 1822- [I]n Chicago, horny-handed, wilted hoi polloi are seen in lobbies of such swell hotels as the Ambassador and Drake in shirt-sleeves. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 4, 1951
- Not to mention, they carried germs after contact with the hoi polloi[.] — Guy Owen, The Flim-Flam Man and the Apprentice Grifter, p. 197, 1972
- “These aren’t for you–these are for workers, civilians the hoi polloi. This is work.” Arthur made the word “work” sound like an obscenity. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 8, 1984
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