Islingtonn.
/ˈɪzlɪŋt(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈɪzlɪŋt(ə)n/ British colloquial (frequently depreciative).
attributive. Designating or relating to (the type of) a middle-class, socially aware person with centre-left or left-wing views supposedly characteristic of Islington residents. Esp. in Islington Man, Islington Person.
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1982 Times 27 Mar. 9/1 The SDP..has attracted all kinds of unlikely supporters to it. There are the conservatives-with-a-conscience, the socialists-with-a-human face, the centrists, the corporatists and ‘Islington Man’.
1994 Independent on Sunday 17 July 15/1 Just as Essex Man, the distinctive lager-swilling Tory entrepreneur, represented the 1980s, Islington Man—more properly Islington Person—may turn out to be the most potent composite of the late 1990s.
1994 Guardian 27 Sept. i. 1/2 The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Jonathan Aitken, yesterday derided Labour's efforts to ditch its tax and spend image as ‘Islington economics’.
2002 Observer (Nexis) 7 July 8 A couple..—thirty-something, determinedly be-bereted, Islington Person personified.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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