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mondeo man

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English

Syllables
mon-deo -man
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A stereotypical male identified as the sort of voter the Labour Party needed to attract to win the 1997 election.

British usage

Etymology

After the Ford Mondeo, a family car, popularised by a phrase used by Tony Blair at the Labour Party conference in 1996, though the vehicle Blair mentioned was actually a Ford Sierra.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Mondeo Men (plural)

Questions

What does mondeo man mean?
A stereotypical male identified as the sort of voter the Labour Party needed to attract to win the 1997 election.
Where does mondeo man come from?
After the Ford Mondeo, a family car, popularised by a phrase used by Tony Blair at the Labour Party conference in 1996, though the vehicle Blair mentioned was actually a Ford Sierra.

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