radical chic

1. 1.

   an affectation of radical left-wing views and the fashionable dress and lifestyle that goes with them

   Broaderaffectation

Questions about radical chic

What does radical chic mean?

radical chic means "an affectation of radical left-wing views and the fashionable dress and lifestyle that goes with them".

Is radical chic a common word?

radical chic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.