Currently the most defined word on the Urban Dictionary, as well as one of the most misunderstood words of all time in general. In short, it's a music genre starting with Rites of Spring, a post hardcore band from the 80s that wrote more emotionally mature lyrics than the rest of the punk scene at the time. While Rites of Spring had no idea that they were going to start an entire movement at the time they more certainly did.
Currently there are many diverse subgenres (including one that stem from the genres of metal, rock, rap, and techno) of music labeled "emo" and all are acceptable as long as people like listening to them.
Currently there are many diverse subgenres (including one that stem from the genres of metal, rock, rap, and techno) of music labeled "emo" and all are acceptable as long as people like listening to them.
Person 1: Hey, have you heard the latest emo album?
Person 2: Oh, the one by The Front Bottoms? Ahh I love it!
Person 1: No, who are they? I'm taking about Hawthorne Heights...
Person 2: Ohhh post-hardcore emo slaps too!
Person 2: Oh, the one by The Front Bottoms? Ahh I love it!
Person 1: No, who are they? I'm taking about Hawthorne Heights...
Person 2: Ohhh post-hardcore emo slaps too!
by anananonymouse July 30, 2025
Get the Emomug. by schnell wagen user November 18, 2022
Get the Emomug. Person 1: Are you going to the deadheadtomiami / idialedyournumber / Captain Sunshine / Breakfast Time! show on January 20th?
Person 2: Oh yeah, absolutely. No way I'd miss a pier emo show.
Person 2: Oh yeah, absolutely. No way I'd miss a pier emo show.
by asteroidgazer December 3, 2023
Get the pier emomug. Emo: I think the world is a dark prison tha-
Me: I'ma have to stop you right there cause I could care less about your depressing ass shit.
Me: I'ma have to stop you right there cause I could care less about your depressing ass shit.
by ikuroneko11 March 8, 2017
Get the Emomug. A person who is truely depressed and usually cuts themselves. Not just their wrist; legs hands fingers cheast, anywhere. There can also be emos mixed with a goth; A person who hates themeselves, everone else, usually hurts themeslves anyway weather its cutting, scratching until you bleed, choking, burning, anyway really. A person who is truely ''fucked up'' and who wants to watch the world burn, and then light themselves on fire to burn with everyone else. Not an actor truely has problems.
by Ezra666 January 1, 2012
Get the Emomug. Emo : Slang for Emotional, An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behaviours. It is a prime determinant of the sense of subjective well-being and appears to play a central role in many human activities. As a result of this generality, the subject has been explored in many, if not all of the human sciences and art forms. There is much controversy concerning how emotions are defined and classified. Emo in our era today, cuts wrist, cries, listens to AFI.
Emo Bands AFI, Weezer, Bullet For My Valentine, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance, Evanessance, ect ect.
by MikeGardner-Hamsox May 11, 2008
Get the Emomug.