About 1980's Stereotypes......PLEASE HELP!?

Question

Does anybody remember the various stereotypes or high school terms you labeled your classmates for fun in high school?
I need to talk about the 80's and I can't remember. I can only think of a few.

I remember : The Punkers, Mauds (spelled wrong I think), New Wavers, Stoners, Hip Hoppers, Rappers, Jocks, Nerds, Dorks, Sluts etc....Can you help me think of anymore? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks

Answer 1

List of high-school subcuultures

Alternative: students bent on avoiding the mainstream. Associated in the 1990s with alternative music. Frequently overlaps with druggies, goths, individuals and artsy.

Artsy students: those interested in photography, drawing, fashion, music etc. Frequently overlaps with theatre groups.

Band geek or Bandos: students taking marching band, concert band, and/or other musical instruments that are considered being in the band genre. Similar parody to Orchestra Dork. Overlaps with orchestra dork, nerd, geek, gangsta', thuganomics, artsy, individualist, rocker, and possibly emo.

Debaters: students taking debate and sometimes forensics.

Druggies, stoners, burnouts, pot-heads, crackheads, dope heads, skids, junkies, chronics: students who take illicit drugs, especially marijuana. Sometimes overlaps with gangsta.

Gamers: play and are sometimes obsessed with video games and other technology, such as computers. Stereotypically they are seen as people who never leave their rooms and never go outside. Often overlap with geeks and nerds, and more recently, hip hoppers, mostly due to the existence of games based on the hip hop culture and the Grand Theft Auto series .

Gear Heads: are those who obsessively love cars, trucks, motorcycles, or anything that has to do with motors. This person is a motor vehicle or cycle enthusiast; also, an enthusiast for working on motor vehicles; a mechanic in the making. This group is almost exclusively male although females are readily accepted so long as they are really into motor vehicles. Also known as motorheads and car nuts,overlaps with AZN's.

Geeks: A geek is a version of nerd. Sometimes plays role playing games online and generally hangs out and socializes with nerds. A "geek" can also be defined as someone who is obsessively knowledgable about a certain type of game, fandom, etc.

Jock: students with interests in participatory athletics; traditional enemy of nerds, geeks, moshers, individualists, and nowadays homosexuals. They are traditionally male, but as the 21st century progresses, female jocks have come out of the woodwork. Many female athletes have older brothers, which demonstrates the importance of sibling influence.

Metalheads: Students who listen to heavy metal music, often with long hair and wearing band t-shirts and jeans. Are occasionally mistaken as goths or punks.

Nerds or geeks: students with interests in math, sciences, computers, and basically specific areas of knowledge; Recently there has been a new developing clique of those interested in accounting, and the stock market; traditional target of jock bullying and by definition more intelligent than the majority of the student body.

Preppy or Prep: those identifying with the upper classes and preparatory school subcultures, although they do not at all belong to that subculture. Stereotyped as clean-cut and wearing fashionable, expensive clothing inspired by that of preparatory schools. Frequently overlaps with jocks and the in-crowd.

Punks: identifying with the punk rock subculture. Frequently overlaps with rejects or alternative.

Rednecks: Students who often listen to country music, have a love of cars and especially pick-up trucks, talk with explicit slang, and are sometimes seen as racists. Often times they are young men who are lax, are interested in the military, have peach fuzz, and wear white tank tops, flannel, and camoflauge.

Stoners: Similar to druggies, though the word is often associated primarily with the use of marijuana, and with the culture that surrounds this drug use. May overlap with druggies, rejects, and slackers.

Theater kids or Thespians: Students who frequently participate in theatrical productions.

Answer 2

Could I offer you some from the 1970's era?

These were around when I attended Berlin American High School, Berlin Germany (when the wall was still up)

Jocks -
people who participated with high school sports

Dorks -
A person who would try popping the fart bubbles (in the bath tub) as they rose to the surface.

Freaks -
people who grew their hair long and generally wore Bell-Bottom Blue Jeans (Levis brand) They usually smoked (Cigarettes). Some of us even wore old Military surplus Field Jackets.

Cancer-Stick Society -
The group of Freaks (and occasional Jocks) who stood at the Cemetary Corner of the fence to grab a quick smoke during school hours.

Stoned -
Usually what happened after smoking Hashish.

Heads - people who smoked Hashish.

Believe it or not you could not get Marijuana in Berlin, Germany in the late 60s through early 70s.

If you wonder why, it was because the Hashish had to be smuggled through (driving) the Russian Occupation Zone to reach Berlin.

There was even a couple of times where the Hashish tasted like Sausage!!

Answer 3

Man, those bring back memories :)

How about that list that Grace (Mr. Rooney's secretary) in Ferris Beuller rattles off when talking about all the cliques that "think he's a righteous dude". Can't remember the quote, but those were from back in the day (80s).

Answer 4

In addition to those you listed, we had rednecks, surfers, cheerleaders, preppies/preps, band f*gs (later band geeks), and thrashers (skateboarders). Would headbangers be another group? My sister was one. :P This was mostly 1984-1988, but the preppies were earlier, around 1981-1982.

Answer 5

I'[m not sure I wasn't born in the 1980's :)

Answer 6

Crack the 80s was about crack. i was born in the early 80s but were im from is was all about gangbangin colors crips bloods crack cocaine just say no ronald fukkin reagan corny azz music thank god for hip hop breakdancin graffitti all dat shiet. oh yeah michael jackson ruled the world lmao before he turned into geisha.

Answer 7

the creeps turds
fruitcakes f@ggot
maggot freshmeat i was born in 86

Answer 8

Reading some of those is so weird. I was born in '86.

Answer 9

hoods


thats what I was labled, due to my older siblings and where we lived...



sad, it was

Answer 10

Valley Girls, preppies....