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5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Babbitt \Bab"bitt\, verb (used with an object) To line with Babbitt metal.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

babbitt

noun

1: an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; an anti-friction lining for bearings [syn: {Babbitt metal}]

verb

1: line with a Babbitt metal

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "Babbitt": Middle American, Philistine, anal character, arriviste, boeotian, boob, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, churl, clown, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, epicier, formalist, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, methodologist, middle-class type, middlebrow, model child, mucker, nouveau riche, organization man, parrot, parvenu, peasant, pedant, perfectionist, plastic person, precisian, precisianist, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yes-man, yokel

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

Babbitt, MN (city, FIPS 3106) Location: 47.64511 N, 91.94006 W Population (1990): 1562 (817 housing units) Area: 273.7 sq km (land), 2.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55706

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

Babbitt, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota Population (2000): 1670 Housing Units (2000): 801 Land area (2000): 105.651265 sq. miles (273.635508 sq. km) Water area (2000): 1.063474 sq. miles (2.754385 sq. km) Total area (2000): 106.714739 sq. miles (276.389893 sq. km) FIPS code: 03106 Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27 Location: 47.669322 N, 91.919331 W ZIP Codes (1990): 55706 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Babbitt, MN Babbitt

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