pleb
A commoner; a member of the lower class of a societyA commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
» Stay away from that pleb.
DJ_Saidez · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 sensesA commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
(derogatory)A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
Prolet
бы́длоbýdlo
просто́людprostóljud, простолю́ддяprostoljúddja, просто́лю́динprostóljúdyn
one of the common people
(US, derogatory, slang, usually)A freshman cadet at a military academy.
Examples
1 sentencesStay away from that pleb.
Translations
5 languagesOrigin
A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebsA clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.
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