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- adjective Referring to someone who is opposed to the existing system (the establishment).
Etymologies
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Examples
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And all those so-called anti-establishment flea party democrats will get steamrolled by the super-rich Democratic Party and its PR machine hope and change!
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She chances upon a coterie of anti-establishment merry pranksters who live in the Haight-Ashbury and decides to spend the night with them.
James Scarborough: Summer of Love, Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011
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As modern and anti-establishment as Mozart, Lois inspired a generation of artists, from Martin Scorsese who once told Lois he remembers where he was when he saw his Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian cover for the first time, to Robert Redford who originally went to Pratt trying to be him.
Andrea Chalupa: The Voice of God? Common Sense: George Lois's Superfocus Andrea Chalupa 2010
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As modern and anti-establishment as Mozart, Lois inspired a generation of artists, from Martin Scorsese who once told Lois he remembers where he was when he saw his Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian cover for the first time, to Robert Redford who originally went to Pratt trying to be him.
Andrea Chalupa: The Voice of God? Common Sense: George Lois's Superfocus Andrea Chalupa 2010
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When I was a kid I knew about Lenny Bruce, and he was quite influential in terms of the anti-establishment stance that I personally have.
Ben Evans: John Dunsworth of Trailer Park Boys on Liquor and Politics Ben Evans 2011
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She chances upon a coterie of anti-establishment merry pranksters who live in the Haight-Ashbury and decides to spend the night with them.
James Scarborough: Summer of Love, Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011
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She chances upon a coterie of anti-establishment merry pranksters who live in the Haight-Ashbury and decides to spend the night with them.
James Scarborough: Summer of Love, Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011
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What makes the Jack Flash sequences arguably escapist is not just their gaucheness but the vicarious thrill of his anti-establishment rebellion.
Essay Rant Thingy Hal Duncan 2009
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She chances upon a coterie of anti-establishment merry pranksters who live in the Haight-Ashbury and decides to spend the night with them.
James Scarborough: Summer of Love, Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011
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Anyway, all of his friends — our friends — were so much older than me, and we all lived together in a big house and they were all quite anti-establishment.
Forty Years Later, Lesley-Anne Down Looks Back on Upstairs, Downstairs 2011
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