what does the term "SKANGER" Mean??

Answer 1

Basically, a hood rat from Dublin.

Answer 2

An Irish slang word to describe a specific group of people. Scarily, the connotations associated with describing someone as a skanger are almost identical to those associated with describing someone as a charva in Britain, despite the fact that these words refer to completely different groups of people in different countries.

Answer 3

A skanger or scanger is the Irish equivalent of a chav, and is particularly in use in Dublin. Check out the wikipedia site for more info if you're interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanger

Answer 4

"Shallow" basically means that you judge people on their appearance rather than their personality and feelings. Example: Bob: "I'm only friends with her because she's hot." John: "You're so shallow."

Answer 5

Usually, that's too long for me. I believe it depends on the guy as well as his face though. Certain guys can pull off long hair and other folks can't.

Answer 6

it means someone from the ghetto in dublin. believe me and not all the rest coz im from dublin

Answer 7

An Irish good for nothing lout :)

Answer 8

Scanger or skanger (female: Howiya) is a derogatory term for a stereotypical member of a youth subculture group in Dublin, Ireland; usually used in reference to members of the working class or lower middle class.

Scangers bear a lot of resemblance to what are called neds in Scotland and chavs in England. Scangers are similar to chavs in numerous ways, sharing similar dress and lifestyle, but have various indigenous identifying features.

Stereotypical appearance:

Head

* Very short haircuts (sometimes with a short fringe or quiff at the front) in males. The wearing of a high pony-tail in the girls (usually at the crown of the head), negatively referred to as the "knacker knot", "scrunchie" or "Annie". The wearing of 'quiffs' on women is also becoming quite popular.
* Peroxide blonde highlights, usually on the top of the head and quiff of males, and as streaks in females have been popular in the Summers of recent years but are losing out to shaved-in patterns among short haired males.
* The wearing of thin moustaches, ("knacker-taches"), such as that made famous by Irish Boxer Barry McGuigan.
* The wearing of branded baseball caps (such as the Burberry check pattern). The cap is often worn at a sharp 70-90 degree angle. The Nike brand has a high take-up rate traditonally among this market segment. In recent years Burberry has also emerged as a strong market player.

Body

* Celtic Football Club jerseys.
* The wearing of full tracksuits, with leggings often tucked into white branded sport socks, and branded trainers (such as Nike Air Max).

In males:

* Collared, shortsleeved golfing style teeshirts have become popular, again usually branded to the same companies as the popular tracksuits/trainers. This emerging fashion is not surprising as many drinking establishments have a dress codes which do not allow football jerseys, golf clothes look more respectable than collarless teeshirts and are sold in the same shops (such as Lifestyle Sports and Marathon Sports) as the other heavily branded sports gear.
* Woolly Jumpers are common on scangers in winter (particularly popular are ones showing prominent brand names such as Fila), football jerseys can be worn beneath and the collars look similar to a full shirt (usually worn with dark coloured tracksuit bottoms).
* Aforementioned dress codes in nightclubs bars the scanger from wearing trainers and tracksuits. Instead long sleeve branded shirts are worn (typically Stone Island, Ben Sherman, Fred Perry, or Lacoste shirts), usually untucked at the waist, with jeans. During the winter the vast majority of scangers wear Columbia Jackets

In females:

* The wearing of all white, pink or baby blue clothing. Many sports brands market directly to "scanger fashion" by manufacturing impractical sports gear, such as velour tracksuits for girls.
* The "tramp-stamp," a tattoo on the lower back is often associated with scanger females, often a word in Chinese, Japanese (or another symbolic language) or a modern tribal tattoo.

Accessories

* Beer cans are often carried in the hands of scangers, who flout by-laws which ban public drinking, typically cheap brand lager or cider (regional variations apply as to the brands though Dutch Gold lager and Linden Village cider are common). Soft drink cans are often carried in areas where where public drinking would be stopped, such as in the city centre.
* Since the advent and proliferation of prepaid mobile phones their obnoxious use has become a trademark of the scanger, such as the playing of ringtones on buses. Scangers have strong associations with football, dance/rap culture and sectarianism. Many a multimillion Euro industry has developed around supplying ringtones and animated graphics, as well as phone covers, with these themes directly marketing to scangers.
* Prominent jewellery: sovereign rings (on men); large earrings, especially hoop earrings, (on women); and thick chains (worn around the neck or wrist) is another characteristic of the scanger; another overt display of affluance, these are often hallmarked silver or gold, or at least gold in appearance—another similarity with the british chav.
* Smoking is very common among scangers, traditionally preferring cheaper brands such as Superkings, John Player Blue (especially in Dublin, often bought in 10 packs and referred to as "Johnny Blue") or Lambert and Butler.
* A popular venue for the consumption of soft drugs, i.e. cannabis, is the back seat of the top deck of a Dublin Bus.
* The Livestrong wristband and other silicone wristbands were very popular among scangers in 2005.


Scangers, as part of the stereotype, have similar social preferences. Preferred clothing brands include Burberry, Lacoste, Nike, Adidas, Ben Sherman and soccer jerseys.

Scangers are very often anti-British, and graffiti by scangers very often concerns the IRA. The phrase 'up the 'Ra' (the 'Ra being a term for the IRA) is often shouted by scangers in groups, and also scrawled on building walls, as is "Brits Out", a reference to the British presence in Northern Ireland. Despite this apparent strong anti-British feeling, many follow the English Premier League, often in preference to following the domestic league in Ireland, Eircom League. Many also support Scottish club Celtic F.C. which has a strong Irish nationalist support base, as opposed to Rangers F.C., which has a unionist support base.

Many male scangers also fit the boy racer stereotype: modes of transportation will often include small cars such as the Nissan Micra, Opel Corsa (or Vauxhall equivalents), Toyota Starlet GT Turbo and Glanza, Mitsubishi Lancer, or Honda Civic as well as the definitive Fiat Punto, modified with expensive parts (or poor quality immitations), such as cold cathode tube lights, "Lexus lights" (rear light clusters styled like those on a Toyota Altezza/Lexus IS200), body kids, and blacked-out windows. These cars are also sometimes decorated with objects such as stylised number plates (often of which do not conform to the regulations), and stickers showing brands such as 'No Fear', ones from magazines such as Max Power and "Fast Car", performance parts manufacturers or sound system companies such as Sony and Pioneer. This type of modified small car is sometimes pejoratively referred to as a 'muppet-mobile' or a 'scanger-banger'. The boy racer has been satirised by Limerick crank callers The Rubber Bandits.

Scangers stereotypically have notoriously little respect for the environment and litter shamelessly.

Female scangers are sometimes seen wearing pyjamas and / or slippers in public at any time of the day. very often scangers can be seen loitering in a public area,sitting on walls or park benches competing with each other to see who is the most 'scangerish' hence insulting (or 'slagging' as they refer to it) those who are the least 'scangerish' by saying 'yeah ye tink yer all shweh'. the term 'shweh' comes from those insulting the high pitched nasal voices of scangers by claiming when conversing with an angry scanger the only sound to be heard is a sort of 'shcweh' noise. stemming from that came the insults such as 'yeah ye big shweh','ye tink yer all shweh','ye tink yer all shmad' and finally 'you shmad lad'.

Hope that answers your question!? ;)