SOCIAL CLIMBER


Meaning of SOCIAL CLIMBER in English

(~s)

You describe someone as a ~ when they try to get accepted into a higher social class by becoming friendly with people who belong to that class.

That Rous was a snob and a ~ could scarcely be denied.

N-COUNT disapproval

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