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great unwashed noun ▶ the great unwashed- the proletariat UK, 1937
Originally derisive and jocular, now somewhat snobbish, but familiarity breeds unthinking colloquialisms. - [The] mildly preposterous the crass assumption that the great unwashed were also unread. — Ther Guardian, 11 November 2000
- hippies UK
At the time, no doubt, this was seen as a literal description of long-haired counterculturists. - — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
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