babbitt[noun]Synonyms: philistine, boeotian, boob, middlebrow
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Bab‧bitt /ˈbæbət, ˈbæbɪt/
a book by Sinclair Lewis about a businessman called George Babbitt who lives in a small US town. Babbitt is regarded as a boring man, because he thinks only about his own business and his position in local society, and he is not interested in other things in life.
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