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Babbitt
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Bab·bitt  (bbt)
n.
A narrow-minded, self-satisfied person with an unthinking attachment to middle-class values and materialism.

[After George F. Babbitt, the main character in the novel Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.]

Babbitt·ry n.

Babbitt, Irving 1865-1933.
American humanist and scholar whose New Humanism movement sought to revive interest in classical virtues in literary criticism.

Babbitt, Milton Byron Born 1916.
American composer whose works, including Vision and Prayer (1961) for soprano and synthesizer, combine serial music and electronic effects.

babbitt [ˈbæbɪt]
vb
(Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) (tr) to line (a bearing) or face (a surface) with Babbitt metal or a similar soft alloy

Babbitt [ˈbæbɪt]
n
US derogatory a narrow-minded and complacent member of the middle class
[after George Babbitt, central character in the novel Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis]
Babbittry  n
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Noun1.Babbitt - an alloy of tin with some copper and antimonybabbitt - an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for bearings that reduces friction
alloy, metal - a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an alloy of zinc and copper"
Verb1.babbitt - line with a Babbitt metal
line - cover the interior of; "line the gloves"; "line a chimney"


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the newly elitist doctrine of "the condition of our senses" came to resemble the "I know what I like" of the once-upon-a-time philistines and Babbitts.
Babbitts could earn a greater profit margin if they could sell their products directly to retailers, rather than to distributors at the wholesale level.
Similarly, Benton County is firmly lodged in the public imagination as a stronghold of conservatism and convention, inhabited by Babbitts on the Willamette.
 
 
 
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