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1) A small child who attempt to act as if he is a wordgangster

2) A poor person.

3) A petty criminal.

4) One who dresses in shell suits, baseball caps at 45 degree angles and usually has a bad complexion. Usually inhabits Dublin or other part of Ireland. Speaks in a strange high pitched accent with undue emphasis on the "eh" of words. Usually drinks vodka and cheap beer.

See also: wordknacker
Ah! Those drunken scangers are going to steal our phones! Run.
Scanger by Travis Bickle September 5, 2003
A rough city/town knack living in Ireland, wears fake burberry hats at 45 degree angle to head,that doesnt block anything even the video camera guys.Tracksuit pants white runners celtic jerseys,try to start arguments anywhere steal peoples phones/purses milk toilet roll hair brush you name it they want it
What a pack of scangers!
thats a frickin scangercity
Scanger by Marie May 13, 2005

Strangerly

When two people have been constantly texting each other for months and have never met before but also can't meet now because they live really far away (mostly in different countries). It is a very weird dynamic for they share instances like normal friends but also reveal information and thoughts they haven't told anyone. Both adore each other and sometimes go on about what the other person means to them leading to romantic tensions. They both have decided to meet sometime and basically fuck shit up.
PS Strangerly can also lead to a fucked up sleep schedule in order to try to talk to the other person if both people live in countries with a vast time difference.
PPS It is NOT a long distance relationship

PPS You're a gold level strangerly if you both lived in the same city before you knew each other and started talking only when one of you moved away.
oh my god Becky I've been talking to him for months but he lives in Italy!:( I've told him stuff I've never told anyone before. Is this what being strangerly feels like?
Strangerly by Ughrisha May 7, 2019

scangers 

Scangers are people usually from disadvantaged or impoverished working class areas of the northside of Dublin city and are also found in similarly poor parts of the mostly affleunt south. In the northside of the city they are commonplace and most youth happen to subscribe to the scanger culture whereby tracksuits (preferably nike) or trackies are worn, as are burberry hats and jewlery (bling) is worn. This on a whole is the cultural dress of the people and is complimented with thick drawlish dublin accents and an in-built expectation to show contempt for the authorities. There is of course exceptions to this and some area of the north are similar to the affleunt south e.g Howth, sutton, clontarf, castleknock, bayside and in these areas the D4 culture is prevelent
Scanger: Howaya, I ha' a bleedin' whoppa tieme las' ni' witch yar man. I tink im preggie

Scanger areas-finglas, ballymun, tallaght, ballinteer.

I can't believe I was just mugged by a group of scangers. They took my phone and my shiny watch, the magpies
scangers by Dr dre nwa September 3, 2008
A perpetually angry person who speaks with a high pitched voice, starts arguments as often as you have hot dinners and generally fcks up any sane social situation.In winter the male of the species typically wears a ben sherman shirt, an undersized jumper, tight jeans rammed up his hole, sovereign rings on the fingers and bad hygiene.The female sports tacky awful clothes, ear rings the size of swimming pool rims and a face in an unending twisted gnarl of rage.Facial wounds are also common.These people often have a good sense of humour.
colin farrels character in "intermission" is an example of a scanger, the perfect combination of tracksuit bottoms and some crazy jumper from the 80's
scanger by chomskola July 2, 2006
The use of slang; language containing slang lexis.
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