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  • A now-rare epithet derived from the Sinclair Lewis book of the same name; it can be loosely defined as an uncultured, "square", typically middle-aged and middle-class businessman characterized by timidity and ignorance of their Philistinism .)



  • Bruce Babbitt (born 1938), United States Secretary of the Interior during the Clinton administration.


  • Milton Babbitt (born 1916), American composer of serial and electronic music.


  • Babbit is rumored to be the source word for Tolkien 's ''hobbit.''