Usually means: Common person, often viewed disparagingly.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pleb: Merriam-Webster
  3. pleb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pleb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pleb: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pleb: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pleb, pleb: Wordnik
  8. pleb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pleb: Wiktionary
  10. pleb: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pleb: Dictionary.com
  12. Pleb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. pleb: Rhymezone
  14. pleb: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pleb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. pleb: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleb-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleb: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleb: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PLEB: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pleb (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. pleb: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
noun:  (derogatory) A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
noun:  (US, slang, usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
adjective:  Of or concerning the lower class of a society.
adjective:  (derogatory) Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.

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