What is Hoi Polloi?
1.
One of the great unwashed. Term applied to a person who lacks culture, sophistication and class. Someone with a sheep's mentality. Way behind in life.
Mike Rehmeyer is uneducated, has mom tell him how to think and what to do and mooches off the state for a living. That must make him one of the Hoi Polloi.
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2.
A stupid term used by pseudo intellectuals with unjustified superiority complexes. Usually think they are above people because Mommy told them so despite the evidence of them being total losers in society. Mostly a term used by inarticulate hypocritical people who are trying to sound haughty & witty.
''The real hoi polloi''
1. A person who votes for and or likes George Bush.
2. A person who you can't expect much from. Someone who thinks they're witty for liking something thats uncommon yet is the biggest hypocrite of them all and listens to other people for guidance.
3.A person who can't support and or think for themselves and relies on someone to take care of them.
A person who claims others are the 'hoi polloi' yet dosen't realize they're even lower than that.
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3.
We read The Atlantic; hoi polloi read People.
4.
The masses, the great unwashed.
Mildly derogatory way to designate the common people as a group, implying they are uncultured and apt to act stupidly.
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from Ancient Greek : "the many"
Election year again... those hoi polloi are still going to let themselves be manipulated into voting for the wrong guy.
