populars

Noun

popular (plural populars)

1. A person who is popular, especially at a school.
   • To pass time, Nicole (Tammy Lynn Michaels), the most vicious of the populars, decides they should play a little game. Earlier that day, in their feminist studies class, the women were discussing Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a novel ...2002, Stephen Tropiano, The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV, Hal Leonard Corporation, →ISBN
2. (in plural) An inexpensive newspaper with wide circulation.
   • Serious newspapers boomed; the populars became tabloid supplements to television, with the television schedules and related features increasingly the core of the newspaper.1983, Jeremy Tunstall, The Media in Britain, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 75
3. A member of the Populares
   • [...] when their ambassadors were come from Samos, and that they saw not only the populars, but also some others of their own party thought trusty before, to be now changed.1843, Thucydides, “The” History of the Grecian War, Translated by Thomas Hobbes, page 415

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