great unhosed

English

Noun

great unhosed pl (plural only)

  1. Alternative form of great unwashed
    • 1997 February 26, “Crime”, in Brass Eye, written by Chris Morris:
      And it's not just the great unhosed. These raiders all earn over two hundred thousand pounds a year in big banks.
    • 2011, Carlos Alba, Kane's Ladder, Birlinn →ISBN
      Really, I can't understand why anyone would want to work in a restaurant, pandering to the random whims of the great unhosed.
    • 2014, Allan Brown, 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland, Hachette UK →ISBN
      He fills the trough at which the great unhosed tuck in and pig out
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