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Its another genre of people, music and personalitites.
There can be a lot of definitions for emo, depending on how you personally look at it.

A majority of people believe it is a classification for music. Mostly the music will consist of very emotion lyrics and lots and lots of guitars. Expect screamo.

If you believe it to be a type of person they will generally wear black with black or unaturally colored hair usually with choppy layers and bangs. They generally wear shoes that are checkered, black, and are usually doodled on. Ex. VANS, Converse, DVS, Etnies, DC, and NSS

Emo personalitites are sad and mopey. Usually they cry, maybe not in front of anyone, but they do. Sometimes the cutor burn to relieve stress. Poetry.Drawings. Anything atristic.
That kid looks emo.

That music sounds so emo.

That kid acts all emo.
Emo by Chelsiiii May 12, 2007
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personally i think emo is a lifestyle. People dont choose to be emo they just are. If your a really emotional person, then your emo,you dont have to cut yourself or think about suicide, those are the poser emo's, who try to be like us when they arent.
" I Just finnished listening to Hawthorne Heights whole album, it was so true and sad, what the kids go through" now thats a tru emo, he or she wont say
" Damn it, i just listened to Hawthorne Heights and they mentioned cutting yourself..." *goes and gets a razor blade to cut*
"awesome!@ i'm already awesomely cool and EMO! - um, i mean, cry weep weep, sniffle"
emo by littlemisswicked October 29, 2007
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A social order in which it is cool to be bipolar!
Patient: "Well i just feel like a wanna jump around and be happy and then I feel like I need to cut...."

Parent: "I think that little Timmy here might be bipolar..."

Shrink: "It's ok...he's just emo!"
emo by Melisa M. January 14, 2008
Whiney teenagers who don't know if they want to be goths or preps so they dress like both and are obsessed with cutting themselves.
I wish my lawn was emo. Then it would cut itself.
emo by Rayth March 18, 2008
When a person, usually a guy, is prone to crying about things such as girls who don't like them, projects that don't work, shoes that are falling apart, bikes that get stolen and the fact that they want to go back to Mexico. It is a trait that is predominant in guys named Dan.
Also: a genre of music popular amongst Long Island high school students in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
"Dan is so emo. All he does is whine about how hard it is to talk to girls."

"Ugh. Don't you know that emo hasn't been cool since 2004."

"Dan is so emo. He busted a hole in his new Adidas sneakers, and started to cry."

emo by Steph-ah-knee February 4, 2009
Useless peices of shit. They sit around all day and night,cry in a corner and are just plain depressing people who slit their wrists.
Guy 1: hey look! James is an emo!
Guy 2: ew, stay away from *him*
Emo by Mrs President March 21, 2021
slightly strange Canadian comedian with dodgy haircut and quirky soh
"I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him"

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing"

Emo Phillips
emo by Majec April 15, 2007