Definition of chav in English:

noun

• A young person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour (usually with connotations of a low social status).

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  • ‘The anti-social behaviour of male chavs seems to reflect their realisation that they are an underclass, not really needed any more, except when young for unskilled manual jobs.’
  • ‘Then I spot a group of five or six real chavs in hooded tops and trackie bottoms sitting on a wall by a bus stop.’
  • ‘He is England's most exciting young footballing talent, a teenage multi-millionaire… and a chav.’
  • ‘If I ever mention pikies, or chavs, it's simply as a white, working class kid from a council estate writing about other white, working class kids on the same council estate.’
  • ‘‘We loved Sophie McGill on the subject of chavs,’ he writes.’
  • ‘The old bill are very interested in these two chavs, because they've been very active recently, nicking stuff from all and sundry, but they've got no hard evidence on which they can get a warrant to search their house.’
  • ‘Has nobody else worked out that you simply can't go around letting these chavs get their hands on cocaine without expecting a giant leap in the number of dead common assaults?’
  • ‘Beyond proving that British chavs lead the world in teenage debauchery there are other interesting statistical snippets.’
  • ‘Mullets, bad wigs and chavs have all been outed.’
  • ‘Similarly, I can't spot who are the chavs and who aren't.’
  • ‘This precinct of shops is habitually used by a bunch of local chavs to hang out, harass people going to said shops, smoke, drink and be generally chav-ish.’
  • ‘I would say it was fairly classless - I encountered posh people and the chavviest of chavs, and everything in between.’
  • ‘Yet a belief in copycat behaviour goes hand in hand with a low opinion of proletarian chavs, seeing a thug lurking under every baseball cap.’
  • ‘So with brain power that isn't far behind that of the local chavs they wreak havoc in the village street and it's the chavs that get the blame.’
  • ‘Yesterday the chavs were debating age differences in relationships.’
  • ‘You turn slowly to face a schoolyard packed with chavs in baseball caps and tracksuits, the uniform for our times.’
  • ‘I have to say, the chavs round here are still wearing shellsuits, and leggings with white stilettos.’
  • ‘Having a moan has become fashionable, whether it's about grammar, chavs or cheap furniture.’
  • ‘What are the chavs of today going to look back on with fond memories?’