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Babbitt

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Babbitt
Babbitt /ˈbæbət, ˈbæbɪt/
a book by Sinclair Lewis about a businessman called George Babbitt who lives in a small US town. Babbitt is regarded as a boring man, because he thinks only about his own business and his position in local society, and he is not interested in other things in life.