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Sloane

Pronunciation: /sləʊn/
(also Sloane Ranger)
Definition of Sloane

noun

British informal
  • a fashionable upper-class young woman, especially one living in London: she speaks more like an Essex girl than a Sloane

Derivatives

Sloaney

adjective (Sloanier, Sloaniest)

Origin:

1970s: from Sloane Square, London (+ Lone Ranger, the name of a fictitious cowboy hero)

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