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Deano

Deano proper noun: a diminutive of the male given name Dean.

Proper noun

Deano

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Dean.

Noun

Deano (plural Deanos)

  1. (UK, slang) An archetypal young lower middle class British man living in a newbuild housing estate, stereotyped as culturally unsophisticated, lavish with money, heavily indebted and conservative-leaning.
    • To many, Deano is a figure of fun: a low-brow, low-status provincial man with bad taste and too much sway over the nation’s cultural life. But the more I read about him online, whether on Reddit, Urban Dictionary, Twitter or YouTube, the more I realise his was not a life to be mocked but cheered —...2023 April 21, Tom McHague, “The political power of Deano”, in Unherd
    • The possibility that Deano might be petty bourgeois rather than working class or middle class was not entertained, but it is precisely the sprawling lower middle class – and not the working class or established middle class – that dominates the new-build commuter belt, the places Duncan Weldon...2023 August 31, Dan Evans, “Deano is Britain’s most misunderstood man”, in New Statesman

Examples of Deano in a sentence

  • To many, Deano is a figure of fun: a low-brow, low-status provincial man with bad taste and too much sway over the nation’s cultural life.2023 April 21, Tom McHague, “The political power of Deano”, in Unherd:
  • Now Clive of India has become Deano of Dubai, driving a Rolls-Royce while flogging a crypto scheme on TikTok.2026 March 5, Bagehot, “Dubai is the front line of Britain’s war with itself”, in The Economist:

Forms of Deano

pluralDeanos

Origin of Deano

From Dean + -o.

Questions about Deano

What does Deano mean?
Deano means a diminutive of the male given name Dean.
How do you use Deano in a sentence?
To many, Deano is a figure of fun: a low-brow, low-status provincial man with bad taste and too much sway over the nation’s cultural life.
What part of speech is Deano?
Deano can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Deano in the dictionary

  1. deannexation
  2. deannexations
  3. deannexed
  4. deannexes
  5. deannexing
  6. Deano
  7. deanol
  8. deanonymise
  9. deanonymised
  10. deanonymises
  11. deanonymising

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