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parklife

parklife noun: the lifestyle and culture of parkgoers.

Noun

parklife (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The lifestyle and culture of parkgoers.
    • Up in the boughs, a literate London Tarzan. Down to earth, a woman on the wait. All part of parklife, give or take the ups and downs.1971, William Samsom, “A Stroll in the Park”, in Réalités, numbers 242-247, page 65
    • I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too. It gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing. (Parklife!)1994, “Parklife”, in Parklife, performed by Blur with Phil Daniels

Interjection capitalized: Parklife

  1. (UK, humorous) A response to a statement perceived as pretentious, pompous or verbose.
    • The news won’t come as a surprise to everyone, considering the number of Twitter users who gamely shouted “Parklife!” at him recently, after Brand’s convoluted way of speaking was compared to the wordy verses of Blur’s song of the same name.2014 November 13, Ella Alexander, “Russell Brand officially a negative influence on politics, according to this”, in The Independent
    • If you can shout “Parklife!” at the end of your sentence with the word “hippocampus” “or “fusiform gyrus” somewhere in the middle, there is a chance you’ve mastered neurobabble.2015 May 5, Jules Montague, “How to win any argument: pseudo-scientific neuro-gibberish”, in The Guardian

Examples of parklife in a sentence

  • From the zoological garden, via the nature reserve and the theme-town, to the TV reality-show — sequences from the evolution of "parklife".2001, Sven Lütticken, “Parklife”, in New Left Review:
  • In Stockholm parklife, certain behaviours are framed as bad, unacceptable, or pathological by institutions such as the police and the social services.2012 October 2, Jonas Bylund and Andrew Byerley, “Friction zones and emergent publics in Stockholm parklife”, in OpenDemocracy:

Origin of parklife

park + life. Almost unattested prior to the 1994 Blur single "Parklife".

From the 1994 Blur single "Parklife", which features a narrator speaking verbosely about his daily routine at the park, interrupted by regular shouts of "Parklife!". Popularized as a general interjection in 2014 in a Twitter meme comparing the supposed similarities between "Parklife"'s narration and the speaking style of Russell Brand.

Questions about parklife

What does parklife mean?
Parklife means the lifestyle and culture of parkgoers.
How do you use parklife in a sentence?
From the zoological garden, via the nature reserve and the theme-town, to the TV reality-show — sequences from the evolution of "parklife".
What part of speech is parklife?
Parklife can be a noun or an interjection.

Words near parklife in the dictionary

  1. Parklea
  2. parkleaves
  3. parkless
  4. parklet
  5. parklets
  6. parklife
  7. parklike
  8. parkly
  9. Parkman
  10. Parkman crab
  11. Parkman crabs

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