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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.
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Babbitt metal
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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