Define the word chav?

[Benten]

Noticed some people basically labelling everyone under 20 a chav. So what is a chav?

Tracksuits? Buckfast? Cannabis? Assaults? ASBO? Jail Time? Spending time on street corners?

[215cu]

Cheltenham Average

[minimatt1967]

Benten said:

Spending time on street corners?

No thats something entirely different.

Edited by minimatt1967 on Monday 16th March 15:44

[Salgar]

I've also noticed that I myself can't tell the difference between a child playing with a football and a granny-torturing knife-wielding crack-smoking 10 year old.
It also depends how many of them there are. And how much they look like they want to give you a good stabbing.

But chavs in reality should be people that do any of the things you listed.

[randomman]

Council House Associated Vermin

I particually like the use of the word Vermin

[Evil Jack]

C ouncil
H ouse
A nd
V iolent

[BigLepton]

If they know what Buckfast is they are NEDs, not CHAVs.

[Shaw Tarse]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav

[MISS E]

depends where the council house is.

[turbobloke]

215cu said:

Cheltenham Average

according to some 'ladies' at the local College, not good for Cheltenhamshire

Also heard of Council House And Violent which, apart from the behavioural tag at the end, risked confusing the salt of the earth with the scum of the earth.

ETA beaten to the keyboard by EJ

Edited by turbobloke on Monday 16th March 15:47

[Benten]

Buckfast is a bit Scottish i think.

[Mattygooner]

Innit.

[f13ldy]

Derived from the Romany Gypsy word of 'Chavvy'.

Which is a term for 'mate, friend'.

Then bdised by the media to describe 65% of the UK Population who's sole goal is job seekers allowance, free housing, crack and knife crime.

[satchbot]

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Chav

[Sciroccology]

Walking (well, slouching and staggering like something out of "Shaun Of The Dead") down the street, with your headgear on backwards, your trousers round your knees showing off your underwear, your laces undone, talking like some black person from Harlem (when you're actually white and from Hemel Hempstead) and listening to "music" through the tinny speakers on your mobile phone.

[Oily Fingernails]

DEFINED!

[Dizi]

215cu said:

Cheltenham Average

You mean Gloucester shirley? Check out Poole, canford heath - biggest council estate in europe...or something like that

[Tony*T3]

The single parent 15 year old offspring of a regular PHer....?

[shakotan]

Dizi said:

215cu said:

Cheltenham Average

You mean Gloucester shirley?

OK...

Dizi said:

Check out Poole, canford heath

Poole? Poole is in Dorset, nowhere near Gloucester?

[Dick_Phallus]

If we're going for the broadest defintion possible - anyone whose day to day manner negatively impacts on anyone else, and who is either oblivious to this or doesn't care. Bonus points if they're proud of the fact.

Edited by Dick_Phallus on Monday 16th March 16:29