city gent
English
Noun
city gent (plural city gents)
- (Britain, informal) A businessman working in the City of London financial district.
- 1940 October, “Notes and News: The High Barnet Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:
- Gone, never to return, is the famous minute bell at High Barnet, the sound of which has caused generations of ' City gents ' to precipitate themselves with most undignified acceleration down the steep station slope in an endeavour to scramble aboard the 8.34 a.m. Moorgate.
References
- “city gent”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.