Usually means: Masses lacking refinement or privilege.
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  1. the great unwashed: Merriam-Webster
  2. the great unwashed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. the great unwashed: Vocabulary.com
  4. great unwashed: Wiktionary
  5. great unwashed: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. great unwashed, the great unwashed: Dictionary.com
  7. The Great Unwashed (band), The Great Unwashed, The great unwashed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Great Unwashed: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  9. Great Unwashed: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. the great unwashed: FreeDictionary.org
  11. the great unwashed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Great Unwashed, the great unwashed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. The Great Unwashed: Encyclopedia

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  1. the great unwashed: Idioms

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  1. the great unwashed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (great unwashed)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic, derogatory) The general populace, particularly the working class.

Similar:
great unhosed, crowd, rabble, vulgar, peasant, white trash, plebs, gutterblood, odds and sods, proletariat, more...

Phrases:
the great unwashed, more...

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Similar:
great unhosed, crowd, rabble, vulgar, peasant, white trash, plebs, gutterblood, odds and sods, proletariat, more...

Phrases:
the great unwashed, more...



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