Babbitt
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Babbitt (novel) is a 1922 novel by Sinclair Lewis. It can also refer to:
- A now rare epithet derived from the Sinclair Lewis book of the same name, loosely defined as an uncultured "square", a typically middle-aged and middle-class businessman characterized by the timidity and ignorance of their philistinism.
- Art Babbitt (1907-1992), an American animator
- Bruce Babbitt (born 1938), a United States Secretary of the Interior during the Clinton administration
- Dina Babbitt (born 1923), an American painter
- Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), an American academic and literary critic.
- Milton Babbitt (born 1916), an American composer of serial and electronic music
- Platt D. Babbitt (1832-1879), an American photographer who lived and worked in Niagara Falls and pioneered tourist photography shot from a pavilion on the U.S. side of the fals
- Babbitt, [[Minnesota], in the United States
- Babbitt, a section of the township of North Bergen, New Jersey, United States, formerly the site of a large railroad yard
- Babbitt metal, any of a number of white metal alloys used for bearings
- "Babbit" is the half-bat, half-rabbit narrator that often transcends the fourth wall in the anime Kodocha