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lum·pen    Audio Help   [luhm-puhn] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.of or pertaining to disfranchised and uprooted individuals or groups, esp. those who have lost status: the lumpen bourgeoisie.
–noun
2.a lumpen individual or group.
[Origin: 1945–50; extracted from lumpenproletariat]
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lum·pen    Audio Help   (lŭm'pən, lŏŏm'-)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Of or relating to dispossessed, often displaced people who have been cut off from the socioeconomic class with which they would ordinarily be identified: lumpen intellectuals unable to find work in their fields.
  2. Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
  3. Vulgar or common; plebeian: "Popular novelists and their mass readership remain a despised lumpen minority" (Leslie Fiedler).

n.  
  1. (used with a pl. verb) The lumpenproletariat.
  2. (used with a sing. verb) A member of the lumpenproletariat.


[From German Lumpenproletariat, the lowest section of the proletariat; see lumpenproletariat.]

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lumpen

adjective
mentally sluggish [syn: lumpish] 

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