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[[hoi polloi]], [[the great unwashed]], [[the plebeians]], [[the crowd]], [[the plebs]], [[the rabble]], [[the masses]], [[the dregs of society]], [[riffraff]], [[the herd]], [[the canaille]], [[the proles]], [[proletariat]], [[sheeple]], [[peons]]. Hoi polloi (Greek: οἱ πολλοί, hoi polloi, "the many") is an expression from Greek that means the many or, in the strictest sense, the people. In English, it has been given a negative connotation to signify deprecation of the working class, commoners, the masses or common people in a derogatory or (more often today) ironic sense.