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great unhosed

noun

Etymology

Coined by Chris Morris in the 1997 Brass Eye episode "Crime" in a satirical parody of crime reporting, with the apparent implication that the people referred to should be cleaned with a hose like farm animals.

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of great unwashed.

    • And it's not just the great unhosed. These raiders all earn over two hundred thousand pounds a year in big banks.
    • Really, I can't understand why anyone would want to work in a restaurant, pandering to the random whims of the great unhosed.
    • He fills the trough at which the great unhosed tuck in and pig out

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA