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radical chic

noun

Definition of radical chic 

: a fashionable practice among socially prominent people of associating with radicals or members of minority groups

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 Other stars include Liv Tyler; Peter Mullan; a slithery Mark Gatiss, as the court operator Sir Robert Cecil; and Tom Cullen, whose fearsome Guy Fawkes is a barbarous departure from the radical chic symbol favored by many hackers and activists. — Jeremy Egner, New York Times, "Kit Harington Isn’t Trying to Compete With ‘Game of Thrones’," 14 Dec. 2017

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1970, in the meaning defined above

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