The 'classic' idea of a chav is as a member of a working-class or underclass youth culture centred around tasteless imitation and embracing of consumer culture as an antidote to poverty and lack of hope. Although the chav stereotype is based upon reality, the concept is largely a media phenomenon that has ironically ended up as a self-fulfilling prophecy through imitation.
Overall, though the existence of a wasted youth element is a reality, pouring venom and vitriol on chavs is a favourite pastime for the semi-literate (who, unfortunately, are too illiterate to see their own deficiencies and that they are only a few steps away from the character they are attacking). In recent times the term 'chav' has made way for 'feral youth'; a term much favoured by working-class Tories and people who read lowbrow newspapers as a substitute for thinking.
Overall, though the existence of a wasted youth element is a reality, pouring venom and vitriol on chavs is a favourite pastime for the semi-literate (who, unfortunately, are too illiterate to see their own deficiencies and that they are only a few steps away from the character they are attacking). In recent times the term 'chav' has made way for 'feral youth'; a term much favoured by working-class Tories and people who read lowbrow newspapers as a substitute for thinking.
Hey there's two chavs nicking your car! Oh sorry, it's just your mum and dad going to the supermarket.
by Baroncorvo August 23, 2016
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Usually used as a derogatory term to describe someone who is from a "rough" area or someone who is viewed as uneducated.
People seem to use the word chav to describe someone who is not from a "rich" or "posh" background.
Many people call someone a chav if they do something that isn't seen as a good or healthy thing to be doing, many people also associate being a chav with drugs, drinking and smoking.
Usually used as a derogatory term to describe someone who is from a "rough" area or someone who is viewed as uneducated.
People seem to use the word chav to describe someone who is not from a "rich" or "posh" background.
Many people call someone a chav if they do something that isn't seen as a good or healthy thing to be doing, many people also associate being a chav with drugs, drinking and smoking.
Person 1: Have you seen the girl over there?
Person 2: Yeah, she's a chav, I saw her smoking a joint with the boys the other day.
Person 1: She's dull as fuck min.
Person 2: Yeah, she's a chav, I saw her smoking a joint with the boys the other day.
Person 1: She's dull as fuck min.
by Fight me en July 14, 2019
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He can either be the teenage version, or even the old man still living out his teenage image.
Whichever, he will appear in the same looking clothing as before with his hands down his front, after he has sprayed his genitals with some form of deodorant, washed his willy in the sink for not having a bath/shower for days. Still have last weekends hair gel in his hair with extra added on top for the following weekend. And in some cases, particularly the older kind, tend to wear too many rings on their hand, just to show how many of his bros he has secretly given bro jobs to and a souvenir to be grateful for.
He can either be the teenage version, or even the old man still living out his teenage image.
Whichever, he will appear in the same looking clothing as before with his hands down his front, after he has sprayed his genitals with some form of deodorant, washed his willy in the sink for not having a bath/shower for days. Still have last weekends hair gel in his hair with extra added on top for the following weekend. And in some cases, particularly the older kind, tend to wear too many rings on their hand, just to show how many of his bros he has secretly given bro jobs to and a souvenir to be grateful for.
Larry: *waiting on park bench in the under 12s playground*
Harry: a'rite mate. Fancy a tug on the old pipe?
Larry: gis a push on da swing first.
Harry: go on then.
Larry: us chav like, gotta stick together like dried spunk on a sock. Right Harry?
Harry: a'rite mate. Fancy a tug on the old pipe?
Larry: gis a push on da swing first.
Harry: go on then.
Larry: us chav like, gotta stick together like dried spunk on a sock. Right Harry?
by Long Johns August 30, 2019
Get the Chav mug.(n) Bilious invective directed at poor people by insecure, empty-headed 'readers' of 'Heat' magazine and the Daily Mail. An acceptable form of class snobbery for people who are too 'right-on' (or perhaps just too poor) to join a country club.
A concept invented by media cokeheads to give underpaid, overworked middle class bores something to look down on and prevent them rebelling against the people who sell them for pennies every single day of the year.
A concept invented by media cokeheads to give underpaid, overworked middle class bores something to look down on and prevent them rebelling against the people who sell them for pennies every single day of the year.
"Look at that Adrian. Some dirty chavs! I'm glad we've got our over-mortgaged little shoe-box and our Vauxhall Nova so we can see how we're different from them."
by Dazzla July 16, 2008
Get the chav mug.chavs tend to think there " 'ard as balls" wich leads to how stupid they are. as balls arnt hard at all. they use idiotic phrases that nobody understands like "its the dogs bollacks" and use made up words as insults.
they tend to wear tracksuit trousers, that they probberly "nicked" from their local grocery store. they always want to fight but only when they have their friends with them.
the girls wear short skirts and have sex with anything that moves, even a street post if the wind is strong enough. they wear tight shirts and wear a ton of make up, but it still dosnt hide their "mingin'" faces.
avoid chavs at all cost. they are sum.
they tend to wear tracksuit trousers, that they probberly "nicked" from their local grocery store. they always want to fight but only when they have their friends with them.
the girls wear short skirts and have sex with anything that moves, even a street post if the wind is strong enough. they wear tight shirts and wear a ton of make up, but it still dosnt hide their "mingin'" faces.
avoid chavs at all cost. they are sum.
by zip1994 October 27, 2010
Get the chav mug.Pejorative term, typically employed by timid middle-class teens to describe their poorer, more aggressive working-class brethren.
Its use often reflects both a fear of its target and a deeply unpleasant sense of social superiority. Parallel fears of relative poverty can be found throughout history, from worries about Victorian street urchins to contempt for medieval peasants.
Its users arguably deserve every bit of grief they get from those they describe as such.
Its use often reflects both a fear of its target and a deeply unpleasant sense of social superiority. Parallel fears of relative poverty can be found throughout history, from worries about Victorian street urchins to contempt for medieval peasants.
Its users arguably deserve every bit of grief they get from those they describe as such.
by zebedee_06 November 6, 2006
Get the chav mug.A male British person of (generally) low socio-economic status with a characteristic clothing style, dialect, and mode of consumer activity.
A chav is generally cunning and resourceful and invokes fear amongst his more passive and uncreative contemporaries. The character the "artful dodger" from Dickens' "Oliver Twist" represents the archetypal chav: poor and lacking in ambition, but clever, witty, and fond of creative-poetic language. The authentic "cockney", long since vanished from London, might also be considered a type of proto-chav.
The term "chav" is almost exclusively used in a derogatory sense by out-group persons, most commonly lower or middle-class British persons actively seeking to establish a more prestigious socio-economic status and the corresponding identity.
The term - and the emotional and negative connotations associated therewith - (see the vast majority of the other definitions above) can be considered the latest manifestation of the typically rigid British conception of class-consciousness.
A chav is generally cunning and resourceful and invokes fear amongst his more passive and uncreative contemporaries. The character the "artful dodger" from Dickens' "Oliver Twist" represents the archetypal chav: poor and lacking in ambition, but clever, witty, and fond of creative-poetic language. The authentic "cockney", long since vanished from London, might also be considered a type of proto-chav.
The term "chav" is almost exclusively used in a derogatory sense by out-group persons, most commonly lower or middle-class British persons actively seeking to establish a more prestigious socio-economic status and the corresponding identity.
The term - and the emotional and negative connotations associated therewith - (see the vast majority of the other definitions above) can be considered the latest manifestation of the typically rigid British conception of class-consciousness.
Setting: public space in any English city. Two pedestrians are approached by a young person dressed in a track suit and a "Burberry" hat.
"Oi, gimme a fag, geezer"
"Sorry?"
"a fuckin' cig, mosha"
"Oh, sorry, I don't smoke"
"'id I say you should talk? Shut the fuck up and get out outta my sight"
Two pedestrians continue on their way. The first, non-smoking pedestrian, seeks to counter his humiliation by addressing the second pedestrian:
"Fuckin' chav."
(nervous laughter)
"Oi, gimme a fag, geezer"
"Sorry?"
"a fuckin' cig, mosha"
"Oh, sorry, I don't smoke"
"'id I say you should talk? Shut the fuck up and get out outta my sight"
Two pedestrians continue on their way. The first, non-smoking pedestrian, seeks to counter his humiliation by addressing the second pedestrian:
"Fuckin' chav."
(nervous laughter)
by Dik van Dyke April 12, 2007
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