Term used by/of a newly decloaked lurker on a usenet newsgroup, e-mail mailing-list or web message-board.
by Nupe January 06, 2004
"...he walked off whilst nuttering
some not very nice words to me"
"So I finished the on the phone and walked back to the Hostel, sort of just nuttering to myself, "y'know, I could've sworn I was just groped by an aborigine"."
some not very nice words to me"
"So I finished the on the phone and walked back to the Hostel, sort of just nuttering to myself, "y'know, I could've sworn I was just groped by an aborigine"."
by Nupe July 24, 2004
The meaning has changed slightly over time:
1970s: An individual or band who took up punk too late after its mid-70s birth, and so simulated the general look of late punk but little of the original ethos. Most 'plastic punks' were fashion-oriented, in it just because it meant they could finally start wearing something non-hippy. A minority had some of the original punk attitude too - but it was directed as violence against other punks and against the teddy-boy revivalist of the time. Often the latter 'plastic punks' caused a lot of the violence at gigs in '78/'79.
1990s onwards: the term is still being used in the USA and UK, to deride "punk" bands who use the music style to spout mainstream liberal 'politically-correct' attitudes.
1970s: An individual or band who took up punk too late after its mid-70s birth, and so simulated the general look of late punk but little of the original ethos. Most 'plastic punks' were fashion-oriented, in it just because it meant they could finally start wearing something non-hippy. A minority had some of the original punk attitude too - but it was directed as violence against other punks and against the teddy-boy revivalist of the time. Often the latter 'plastic punks' caused a lot of the violence at gigs in '78/'79.
1990s onwards: the term is still being used in the USA and UK, to deride "punk" bands who use the music style to spout mainstream liberal 'politically-correct' attitudes.
1970s: "In the incident Joe Strummer, of The Clash had smacked a member of the mob with his guitar, was arrested and released after it had been established that he wasn't pissed. The band were, however, pissed off by this element at their gigs. Yet again, the result of a plastic punk attitude."
1990s, USA: "...forget those impressions of the East Bay as being a politically-correct plastic punk world. The bands featured here are the underground of the underground."
1990s USA: "Perhaps predicting, predating and being too iconoclastic for plastic punk chic, it's unlikely they are going to be on the cover of The Face quite yet."
1990s, England: "Goldsmiths Tavern is only good for a stabbing or a puking plastic punk."
1990s, USA: "...forget those impressions of the East Bay as being a politically-correct plastic punk world. The bands featured here are the underground of the underground."
1990s USA: "Perhaps predicting, predating and being too iconoclastic for plastic punk chic, it's unlikely they are going to be on the cover of The Face quite yet."
1990s, England: "Goldsmiths Tavern is only good for a stabbing or a puking plastic punk."
by Nupe January 06, 2004
Body language of a guilty teen boy who has been accused of some anti-social behaviour, but has faced it down and now knows that the charge cannot be proven against him.
"Man - that little sh*t is so smirky, just look at him. I know he did it. He knows he did it. I'm gonna nail his a*s if its the last thing I do!!"
by Nupe January 07, 2004
A simple term which means the same as, but avoids having to say, "artists, photographers, sculptors, painters, designers, architects, crafts makers..." etc.
"Creatives can't afford to stay in that part of the city now that the developers are moving in and renovating the old properties."
by Nupe January 06, 2004
One who tells lies. Use usually implies a certain amount of affection on the part of the one using the word of another.
by Nupe January 06, 2004
by Nupe January 10, 2004