grebo (greebo)

grebo (greebo)
n
British
a scruffy young rock-music enthusiast, typically long-haired, unkempt and leather-jacketed. The word was coined in 1985 in the Midlands to describe a youth subgroup of gauche but earnest heavy-rock devotees. Grebo does not so much denote a separate cult (its proponents displayed characteristics of rockers, hip-pies, goths and punks), but is a new term for a pre-existing phenomenon (as in the case of anorak).
► 'Greboes drink stout and snakebite, smoke Players No.6 (packets of ten), wear y-fronts and dirty torn jeans, drive big bikes, and go out with girls who don t shave their armpits.' (I-D magazine, November 1987)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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