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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - city slicker

 
 

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City slicker

city slicker
(city slickers) If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life. (INFORMAL) ...the city slickers in the capital. N-COUNT
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   noun  Date: 1924 slicker 2b CITY  noun  (plural cities)  Usage: often attributive  Etymology: Middle English citie large or small town, from Anglo-French cite, from Medieval Latin civitat-, civitas, from Latin, citizenship, state, ~ of Rome, from civis citizen — more at hind  Date: 13th century  1.  a. an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village  b. an incorporated British town usually of major size or importance having the status of an episcopal see  c. capitalized  (1) the financial district of London  (2) the influential financial interests of the British economy  d. a usually large or important municipality in the United States governed under a charter granted by the state  e. an incorporated municipal unit of the highest class in Canada  2. ~-state  3. the people of a ~  4. slang a thing, event, or situation that is strongly characterized by a specified quintessential feature or quality the movie was shoot-out ~ ...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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  1. неодобр. пройдоха из большого города; гражданин, норовящий обмануть деревенских жителей ...
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3.
  ~ n someone who lives and works in a city and has no experience of anything outside it ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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