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paninaro

paninaro noun: a youth movement in northern Italy in the 1980s characterized by an obsession with designer clothing and fast food.

Noun

paninaro

  1. (historical) A youth movement in northern Italy in the 1980s characterized by an obsession with designer clothing and fast food.
    • Girls, boys, art, pleasure / Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh1986, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant, “Paninaro”, performed by Pet Shop Boys
    • The year it was released, Valentino Garavani began legal action to try to have the McDonald's next to his HQ in Rome on Piazza di Spagna closed down. The paninaro trend petered out but the McDonald's outlived Garavani.2026 April 4, Marc C O'Flaherty, “‘Fashion never got better than that’”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5

Origin of paninaro

Borrowed from Italian paninaro.

Questions about paninaro

What does paninaro mean?
Paninaro means a youth movement in northern Italy in the 1980s characterized by an obsession with designer clothing and fast food.
What part of speech is paninaro?
Paninaro is a noun.

Words near paninaro in the dictionary

  1. panimmune
  2. panimmunity
  3. panims
  4. panin
  5. Paninaan
  6. paninaro
  7. panine
  8. Paninean
  9. panines
  10. paninflammatory
  11. paning

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