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Roy, n.3 Austral.|rɔɪ|
[f. the personal name Roy.]
A smart, fashionable, or ‘smooth’ person. Also attrib.
1960Encounter May 28 The Australian business-man or big land-owner, the button-down shirt, lightweight suit type of smoothie from the North Shore line in Sydney or the Toorak Road in Melbourne, with his spurious ‘taste’ and ‘culture’... In current Australian terminology, this is the ‘Roy’ type. 1965Nation (Austral.) 27 Nov. 21 Middle-class ‘Roys’ in sports cars and yachting jackets. 1971F. Hardy Outcasts of Foolgarah xi. 143 The young executives, the in-people, call them what you like, the Roys, the jet set, the status symbol seekers from Perisher Valley to Palm Beach, and none of them worth a pinch of shit if it comes to doing an honest day's work. |