pleb

noun
/plɛb/

Etymology

A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.

Definitions

  1. A commoner

    A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.

  2. A common person

    A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person.

    • You're under my roof, you pleb.
  3. A freshman cadet at a military academy.

    • I found some of the novices, plebs they are called, home-sick, and weary with their discipline.
    • At Annapolis, the natives are crabs, the freshmen plebs, the sophomores youngsters.
  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Of or concerning the lower class of a society.

    2. Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.

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