hi-so

hi-so
 adj.— «Visitors to Khao San Road “are more hi-so now,” says Pattamon Yaidaeng, invoking the local term for “high society.”» —“A Hippie Haven Goes Upscale” by Newley Purnell in Bangkok, Thailand New York Times Aug. 19, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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