social climbernoun [ C ]
uk/ˌsəʊ.ʃəl ˈklaɪ.mər/us/ˌsoʊ.ʃəl ˈklaɪ.mɚ/disapprovingsomeone who tries to improve their social position by being very friendly to people from a higher social class
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Class & class-consciousness in general
- arriviste
- bougie
- bourgeois
- class struggle
- class-conscious
- high society
- Hooray Henry
- inverted snob
- lower class
- lowest common denominator
- polarize
- prole
- proletarian
- riff-raff
- Sloane Ranger
- underclass
- untouchable
- upper class
- upwardly mobile
- well bred
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social climbing
noun [ U ] ukus