babbitt 
☆ bab·bitt (bab′it)
noun
Babbitt metal
transitive verb
to line or cover with Babbitt metal
☆ bab·bitt (bab′it)
noun
a smugly narrow and conventional person interested chiefly in business and social success; Philistine
Etymology: after George Babbitt, title character of a satirical novel (1922) by Sinclair Lewis
Bab·bitt (bab′it)
Babbitt, Milton Byron 1916-; U.S. composer
His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April,1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetryand tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.
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