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n. - Class consisting of all those who are considered simpletons or dopes.

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  • And don’t forget the fall elections nothing buoys public approval ratings, distracts the booboisie from a moribund economy, and puts steam in my slacks like a little...
  • The "booboisie," as Mencken often called them, have always been with us.
  • (Wood had read H.L. Mencken's debunking of the American "booboisie" and, for a time, agreed with it.)
  • Only the terminally disinterested, which is to say a vast swath of the "booboisie", march lock step to the mainstream medias pied pipers.
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