Romany word meaning "little child". Recently misappropriated by the mainstream media and used as a slur against British working class culture, while at the same time denigrating it's language of origin. To be called a chav is to be a scapegoat and effectively a "white nigger".
In many ways, both chavs and US trailer trash are 'not-quite-white', in the sense that they are seen as thieving, violent, promiscuous and thoroughly unrespectable: the very tropes that historically have been applied to Irish, Asian and Black immigrants in Europe and America.
by Jessica Fox October 17, 2005
chav, this is basically not in the same group as civilized humans. they wear amazing clothes(straight off the catwalk) and show off authentic gold jewelry that only we can lust after. their language is one of maturity.
chavs=end of western civilization and must be iradicated quikly
the good thing about this is ive used big words so they wont understand this(:
chavs=end of western civilization and must be iradicated quikly
the good thing about this is ive used big words so they wont understand this(:
chav
by jkjkjklololol i heart your f July 30, 2009
chavs are simply the dregs of human existance which generaly show them selfs as being dumb, lazy and violent.
the classic chav will hang around a lamp post shouting at anyone who walks past him and trying to start fights with inocent people, untill someone punches him in the face and couses him to run off cring to his brother/girlfriend/friends saying that they were randomly attacked for no reason
by OXIV August 31, 2010
A prejudicial expression to define white urban disadvantaged youth. It is normally used by snobbish urbans in denial with their own desenchantment with their careers and life as an young adult in general. Labelling others as "Chavs" is an desperate attempt to feel superior to someone. "Chav" is a term used to alienated those who grew up under very rough conditions (no good family structure, no nice neighbourhood, no adequate role model) and to keep up a ridiculous British class system. Definitions of "Chav" are often exageratted stereotypes, that are not based on real experiences, but repetitions from what it is seen in the Media.
Chavs: Term used by deluded lower middle class young adults to define anyone who they feel to be inferior to themselves.
by Bee Smith September 10, 2006
A boring stupid idiot who pretends to like greenday so all the emo girls will think hes cool. Their usually short, have bad hair, and dress like gangsters. Their friends are either mentally retarded people or other chavs. Known for very bad comebacks.
girl:eww im breaking up with you ur a chav
aaron (chav):well i slept with ur mom ON THURSDAY
girl:ok whatever
aaron (chav): ur a fat goth!!!!! ooo.
girl:just shut up. ur sad.
aaron (chav): ur mom!!!!!
aaron (chav):well i slept with ur mom ON THURSDAY
girl:ok whatever
aaron (chav): ur a fat goth!!!!! ooo.
girl:just shut up. ur sad.
aaron (chav): ur mom!!!!!
by pixiebitch June 09, 2007
People who should basically go die! They are a race of tacky, ugly people who can't seem to see everyone hates them and that they have no future/musical taste/sense of style/contraception.
See wanker scum bastard scrounger retard fail
See wanker scum bastard scrounger retard fail
by punkplatypus August 06, 2010
"Chavs" was originally UK anti-Gypsy slang, much like "N*ggers" in the USA.
It has for roughly five years been used as a group name by middle class English youth to describe their working class (poorer) opposite numbers (usually white and applying to both sexes). It isn't a neutral term: it means ugly, smelly, dirty and so on.
The person using the term most likely considers themselves more sensitive, more artisitc, more open-minded, and more "against teh system!!1!" than the "chavs", and is simply not interested in the following ludicrous ideas:
a) working class people do not all pose a threat to one's health/expensive mobile phone/taxpayer's money(!!11!!)
b) working class people who do pose a threat may do so because of their treatment by the economic system, and not through their own personalities
c) hating working class people based on the fact they can't afford the same expensive "anti-establishment" (Hot Topic and similar) clothes as you is actually playing straight into the hands of the establishment
d) why is Pete Doherty cool but "OMG some smackhead on the street isn't"
e) the working class are "people"
It has for roughly five years been used as a group name by middle class English youth to describe their working class (poorer) opposite numbers (usually white and applying to both sexes). It isn't a neutral term: it means ugly, smelly, dirty and so on.
The person using the term most likely considers themselves more sensitive, more artisitc, more open-minded, and more "against teh system!!1!" than the "chavs", and is simply not interested in the following ludicrous ideas:
a) working class people do not all pose a threat to one's health/expensive mobile phone/taxpayer's money(!!11!!)
b) working class people who do pose a threat may do so because of their treatment by the economic system, and not through their own personalities
c) hating working class people based on the fact they can't afford the same expensive "anti-establishment" (Hot Topic and similar) clothes as you is actually playing straight into the hands of the establishment
d) why is Pete Doherty cool but "OMG some smackhead on the street isn't"
e) the working class are "people"
Middle class young dude: "OMG LOL I saw this Chav woman before with two kids I was like OMG why don't I just kick those kids in the face with my converse trainers like Chuck Norris OMG I should kill them all like that Hitler dude that'd be cool ROFL she's not gonna steal my mobile when I totally kick her kids in the head lol"
His friend: "Yeah I know Chavs aren't very nice people when you think about it"
His friend: "Yeah I know Chavs aren't very nice people when you think about it"
by A. Weekofplenty April 08, 2006