Sloane Ranger

English

Etymology

Blend of Sloane Square +‎ Lone Ranger. Popularized by Ann Barr and Peter York in The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982).

Noun

Sloane Ranger (plural Sloane Rangers)

1. (British, informal) A fashionable young woman of the London upper classes.
   • 2012, Time Out Shortlist London 2012 […] , Random House, →ISBN:

     Come summer, the brasserie terraces teem with stereotypical blonde Sloane Rangers sipping rosé; an artier crop of whatever's stylishly edgy will have taken up residence outside the Royal Court Theatre.

Synonyms

• Sloane
• Sloanie

Translations

fashionable young woman

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倫敦名媛 / 伦敦名媛 (Lúndūn míngyuàn)

• Portuguese: patricinha (pt) f

See also

• Essex girl

Further reading

• Sloane Ranger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eric Partridge (2005) “Sloane Ranger”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1782.