Eurotrash
Eurotrash noun: continental European entertainment that is of low quality, or is lowbrow.
Noun
Eurotrash (uncountable)
- Continental European entertainment that is of low quality, or is lowbrow.
- European expatriates or visitors to the United States lacking a work ethic and focused on entertainment or leisure.
- Yes, those hard-partying jet-setters known to American wags as Eurotrash, who flocked to New York City by the Concordeload in the 1980's sporting black mock turtlenecks, leather pants and sometimes dubious aristocratic titles, are back on the town.2002 December 8, Julia Chaplin, “A New Eurofestation”, in New York Times
- For reasons becoming clear to me / New York City you are dead to me / Well you can turn back time but I'm never coming back / To when you called me Eurotrash2018, “Eurotrash”, in Pillycock, performed by Momus
Origin of Eurotrash
From Euro- + trash. Compare white trash.
Questions about Eurotrash
- What does Eurotrash mean?
- Eurotrash means continental European entertainment that is of low quality, or is lowbrow.
- What part of speech is Eurotrash?
- Eurotrash is a noun.
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