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Gucci socialist en · NOUN

Etymology

From Gucci (“luxury fashion house”) + socialist.

Meanings

1. A person who claims to support the worker's control over the means of production, but has a lifestyle that does not match his/her beliefs.
   • It is very much the Gucci socialist party that has lost contact with the average working man. 1991, Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Victoria Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: Legislative Assembly:
   • In fact, as an old man, Goldfinger was largely forgotten, described by himself as demonised, and by others as embittered and a 'Gucci Socialist' hungry for the social significance of a knighthood. 2008 September 24, Kenneth Allinson, Architects and Architecture of London, Routledge, →ISBN, page 328:

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Synonyms

chardonnay socialist · silver-spoon socialist · gauche caviar · champagne socialist · smoked salmon socialist