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those people

those people noun: any outsiders of a clique.

Noun

those people pl (plural only)

  1. (derogatory, plural, plural-only) Any outsiders of a clique.
  2. (plural, plural-only) Members of a particular group, collectively.
    • Drawing the rhetorical distinction between the "people like yourselves" at the overwhelmingly white rally and "those people" protesting was, needless to say, a provocative framing of the issue.
    • The country would be much better off, in his opinion, if "those people" (the term he used in his speech) just went somewhere and shut up.

Questions about those people

What does those people mean?
Those people means any outsiders of a clique.
What part of speech is those people?
Those people is a noun.

Words near those people in the dictionary

  1. thosais
  2. Thoschei
  3. those
  4. those guys
  5. those ones
  6. those people
  7. those that have get
  8. those that have get more
  9. those that have, get
  10. those that have, get more
  11. those were the days

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