sheeplen.
/ˈʃiːpl/, U.S. /ˈʃipəl/ depreciative.
People likened to sheep in being docile, foolish, or impressionable.
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1945 Musical Times Mar. 84/1 The People, as ever (I spell it ‘Sheeple’), will stand anything.
1949 E. Rogers Old Hokum Bucket ix. 212 With so many ‘sheeple’ in this country it is little wonder that mountebanks in many fields of endeavor have thrived and grown fat.
1981 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 18 July c1/1 The worst tax of all is ‘inflation’, the word that is used to try and pacify the ‘sheeple’.
2004 Backwoods Home Mag. Sept.–Oct. 86/1 It's too late, there's too many sheeple to change things.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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