hoi polloi
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Known for only wearing metallic animal masks and formal attire, the VIPs are the filthy rich who pay to watch and bet on the desperate hoi polloi who compete in the Squid Game.
From Salon • Dec. 29, 2024
She installed a flashing “disco full” sign outside to discourage the hoi polloi and a slide-back peephole at the door to inspect supplicants for admission to the pounding music and gold-plated glamour of her Valhalla.
From New York Times • May 1, 2022
Now Palm Springs is known as a picture-postcard fantasy for hoi polloi like you and me, sipping cucumber-infused water poolside while humming bars of “The Girl from Ipanema.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2022
Tommy is good — if that’s even the right word — at stirring up hoi polloi.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2021
Presumably they were used to dazzle hoi polloi.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
