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city gents

city gents is the plural of city gent.

Meaning of city gent

Noun

city gent (plural city gents)

  1. (UK, informal) A businessman working in the City of London financial district.
    • Gone, never to return, is the famous minute bell at High Barnet, the sound of which has caused generations of ' City gents ' to precipitate themselves with most undignified acceleration down the steep station slope in an endeavour to scramble aboard the 8.34 a.m. Moorgate.1940 October, “Notes and News: The High Barnet Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 569

Questions about city gents

What is city gents the plural of?
City gents is the plural of city gent.

Words near city gents in the dictionary

  1. City editor
  2. City editors
  3. city father
  4. city fathers
  5. city gent
  6. city gents
  7. city girl
  8. city girls
  9. city hall
  10. city halls
  11. City High

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