Sloane Ranger

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Etymology

Blend of Sloane Square + Lone Ranger. Popularized by Ann Barr and Peter York in The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982).

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Sloane Ranger (plural Sloane Rangers)

  1. (British, informal) A fashionable young woman of the upper classes.
    • 2012, Time Out Shortlist London 2012 [] , Random House, →ISBN:
      Come summer, the brasserie terraces teem with stereotypical blonde Sloane Rangers sipping rosé; an artier crop of whatever's stylishly edgy will have taken up residence outside the Royal Court Theatre.

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