a young upper-class or upper-middle-class woman having a home in London and in the country, characterized typically as wearing expensive informal country clothes
Also called: Sloane
Word origin
C20: coined by Peter York, punning on Sloane Square, London SW1, and Lone Ranger, television cowboy character
Sloane Ranger in American English
(sloun)
noun
a young upper-class or upper-middle-class woman having a home in London, England,+ and in the country, characterized typically as wearing expensive informal countryclothes
Word origin
[1970–75; b. Sloane Square, London, and Lone Ranger hero of radio and television Westerns]This word is first recorded in the period 1970–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Heimlich maneuver, good old boy, postmodernism, salsa, stress test