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Sloan Girl?

Every once in a while I come across to a reference to a "Sloan girl" type in a book. I looked it up once, and there's a Sloan program at the LSB. That kinda fits, but ... is there more?
  

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[nq:1]Every once in a while I come across to a reference to a "Sloan girl" type in a book. I looked it up once, and there's a Sloan program at the LSB. That kinda fits, but ...

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  • [nq:1]Every once in a while I come across to a reference to a "Sloan girl" type in a book.
  • I looked it up once, and there's a Sloan program at the LSB.
  • That kinda fits, but ...
  • [/nq] Two quite different things.
  • "Sloane" girl is probably a contraction of "Sloane Ranger" - NSOED explains thus: Sloane Ranger /slUn "reIndZ/ n.
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[nq:1]Every once in a while I come across to a reference to a "Sloan girl" type in a book. I looked it up once, and there's a Sloan program at the LSB. That kinda fits, but ... is there more?[/nq]
Two quite different things.
"Sloane" girl is probably a contraction of "Sloane Ranger" - NSOED explains thus:
Sloane Ranger /slUn "reIndZ/ n. & a. phr.L20. (A play on Sloane Square, London, a
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