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☆ social climber

a person who associates with socially prominent people in an attempt to gain higher social status

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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