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Define The Great Unwashed Meaning

The Great Unwashed
1. A person of a lower order who is looked down upon by most of society.

2. A term to refer to anyone who is common and or stupid in their ways.

3. Can also be applied to a person who follows 'the crowd' and dosen't have a mind of their own.

Being lazy, a moocher and lacking a college education M. Rehmeyer was considered as one of 'the great unwashed' by the higher echelons of society.
By Darda
The Great Unwashed
Coined by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, "the great unwashed" refers to the lower classes.

The common people.

The great unwashed enjoy reality TV and shopping at Wal-Mart.
By Jaquenette
The Great Unwashed
the working class masses

Corporations fear the day that the great unwashed will throw of the shackles of consumerism and ever increasing debt and focus on more imporant endeavours such as their health, family and friends.
By Jacky
The Great Unwashed
People who like to go camping and not shower so they can be "one with nature". People who wear birkenstocks.

The great unwashed must be distinguished from homeless people...the gw have homes and often have money, they're just dirty.

Yuck, one of the great unwashed is camping down by the river again! I can smell him from here.
By Trudi
The Great Unwashed
People who go to Lan parties and down`t wash for three days straight...also known as CS Players

By Doro
The Great Unwashed
see UAF or Unite Against Fascism

the great unwashed are bitching against the narrrzis again
By Leeanne