People who had a good professional job and (usually) a house which had significantly increased in value - but then they realised that by selling the house and moving to another (usually rural, far cheaper) area of the country, they could 'downshift' their lives and yet still have a small fortune in the bank + less stress, less work, more time with the family, more money.
See also: downshifting.
See also: downshifting.
I know a couple who downshifted from their £2.1m house in London. She was in teaching, he was an accountant. Now they run a great little art gallery during the summer in the wilds of the Derbyshire Peak District, and just make art and teach their kids for most of the year."
by Nupe January 06, 2004
Common British slang for "stolen".
See also: pinched, taxed, half-inched, lifted, knocked off, 'fell off the back of a lorry'.
See also: pinched, taxed, half-inched, lifted, knocked off, 'fell off the back of a lorry'.
by Nupe January 06, 2004
"I finally got a new digicam."
"I got a new digital SLR, so the old digicam has been handed down to the kids."
"I got a new digital SLR, so the old digicam has been handed down to the kids."
by Nupe January 06, 2004
Highly manipulated photograph or photographs, created using the Adobe Photoshop software. The results usually fool the eye into thinking that the photoshopped image is a single original photograph. If on the internet, created with a satirical or humourous intent. If in print, often referring to illicit manipulation of a photojournalism image.
by Nupe January 06, 2004
Twenty-something male who apes the dress (tweed suits, waistcoats, glasses, hats etc) and intellectual tastes of the "old fogey" generation.
"This trendy fashion for young fogey-ism must be stopped immediately! If I see one more young man parading around in his grandad's suit and sounding like the only-begotten son of Stephen Fry and Morrissey I shall leave England forever!"
by Nupe January 07, 2004