What is a CHAV?

Question

I have never heard this word until on yahoo answers, tried googling it and got a variety of suggestions .........
What do YOU mean when you say "chav"?.........
It seems that it is a derogatory term?

Answer 1

trailer trash who wear labelled clothing to the point of making it look like crap look at this site and you'll se the state of them

http://chavscum.co.uk/4images/index.php?sessionid=2adc0c0e9da75d495ccc4ba295990208&sessionid=2adc0c0e9da75d495ccc4ba295990208

just read the comments underneath the photos...

Answer 2

It's derogatory but it's not something absolutely awful. It's kind of a joke.

They wear tracksuits, buy gold jewellery from Argos, say 'innit' a lot, drink WKD Blue. Girls names include: Chardonnay, Kayleigh-Mercedes. Boys names: Tyler, Taylor or Kai. Celebrity chavs include: Kerry Katona, Jade Goody and Jordan and Peter Andre.

I disagree with the above answer: Chavs aren't middle class. They're kind of classless.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

it is a derogatory term, a Chav is pa person who wears sports clothing like tracksuits, has big, OTT jewelry, which is usually fake, they partake in binge drinking and have lots of kids from lots of different girls, they tend to hang around in groups of fifty, smoking the cheapest cigarettes and drinking cider and packing away so many drugs all at once, they refuse to work (or when they do work, its usually as an unwilling worker at McDonalds, this is also where they eat) they like to gang up on people who are on their own, but back off should a group of non chav people threaten them. They listen to hip-hop/rap, dance and house music and say stupid words and phrases like "You beefin' me boys?" (meaning "are you threatening me and my friends?") they like to indulge in anti-social behavour and love sponging off the tax-paying, law abiding public thinking the rest of the country can pay for them

A lot of people (myself included), can't stand chavs, (I actually got assualted by a gang of them while innocently coming home from work) a number of people I have spoken to have hated chavs and their "Lifestyle". The same people I have spoken to cannot wait, like me, until the Chavs become no more!

Answer 5

It is the romany gypsy name for a child.

The press have bastardised this ancient word as a term for the 'fake Burberry Cap wearing', Anti-Social-Behaviour-Order collecting youth of Britain who are currently being percieved as the Scurge of this great country.

It is worth considering though what is more antisocial? The disenchanted youth expressing their lack of motivation to work for a living when the government is making it easier and easier for them to access benefits and housing. Or the Daily Mail reading middle classes collectively judging huge swaithes of our nation by nothing more than the clothes that they wear and coining derogatory slurs specifically for them.

Answer 6

When I was a child my family & friends used the word chav or chavvy a lot. Its Romany Gypsy for friend or mate. Theres lots of words used every day that comes from Romany Gypsy, lolly is money, cosh is stick & cushti or cushy is good. Another is loko, it means light so if someone calls you loko your light on brains

Answer 7

a CHAV in my opinion is a skanger, and when i call a person a chav or a skanger i dont mean NOTHING bad towards them, i personally dont like putting people into catagories but sometimes its neccesary! maybe im a hypocrite for even using the word in the first place but i thats just my opinion!

Answer 8

Counsil Housing And Violent = CHAV

Answer 9

CHAV means Council House And Violent.

It is usually what people of upper class call middle class people who are outgoing and like to have their say. Lots of jewery and baseball caps are usually worn by chavs!

Answer 10

Picture this.... a young lad about 12 years of age and 4 ½ feet high baseball cap at ninety degrees in a imitation addidas tracksuit, with trouser legs tucked into his socks (of course, is definitely the height of fashion). This lad is strutting around, cigarette in one hand jewellery all over, outside McDonalds acting as if he is 8 foot tall and built like a rugby player, when some poor unsuspecting adult (about 17/18) walks round the corner wanting to go to mcdonalds for his dinner glances at the young lad, the young lad jumps up in complete disgust and says “Whats your problem? Wanna make sommin of it? Bling Bling” when the adult starts to walk towards the young lad, the young lad pisses himself and runs off to either his pregnant 14-year-old girlfriend or his brother in the army crying his eyes out.

Hope that helped x

Answer 11

Others have said better than I. All I can add is these brats would have to come up ten notches to be a low-level prat.
Equally, it isn't as bad a term as some we hear. Pillock comes to mind.
Charles "That Cheeky Lad"
Happy Christmas to everyone!