Babbitt

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
babbitt
    n 1: an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for
         bearings that reduces friction [syn: {Babbitt metal},
         {babbitt}]
    v 1: line with a Babbitt metal
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Babbitt \Bab"bitt\, v. t.
   To line with Babbitt metal.
   [1913 Webster]
from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
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)
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
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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