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Bass about soprano: "Flipping stuck-up sort" (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

snob

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'stuck-up sort' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'bass about soprano flipping' is the wordplay.
'bass' becomes 'b' (musical abbreviation).
'about' becomes 'on' ().
'soprano' becomes 's' (musical abbreviation).
'flipping' is a reversal indicator.
'b'+'on'+'s'='bons'
'bons' reversed gives 'SNOB'.

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(Other definitions for snob that I've seen before include "Stuck-up person" , "One has pretensions" , "One who considers himself socially superior" , "One looks down on others" , "One attaching importance to social position" .)

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