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bright young people en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (capitalized, historical, often, plural, plural-only) Synonym of bright young things, a youth culture in 1920s London.
    • Like the American collegians, the Bright Young People stoked the media's new obsession with youth. They were the first British youth culture to be defined in aspirational terms, as they heralded the application of adolescence as an ideal beyond biology. 2007, Jon Savage, Teenage, Viking, →ISBN, page 248:

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bright young things