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chav

noun

A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.

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A columnist describes Vicky Pollard, an archetypal chav created for a TV comedy programme, as emblematic of the aforementioned "dismal ineducables" and "pasty-faced, lard-gutted slappers" supposedly infesting the nation's public housing.

The more patriotic of these casuals began to adopt home-grown brands, and Burberry, previously the preserve of greying executives on golfing holidays, became a favourite.By the early 2000s the company's distinctive camel-coloured check had become the uniform of the "chav", the stereotypical white working-class delinquent looking for trouble.

It protected its brand by making those checks quieter and costlier, and boosted its sales by expanding into China, where no one tells chav jokes.

Bile and hatred are freely available, whether from books devoted to laughing at "chav towns", or websites that describe the five best ways to kill a chav, should you encounter one.

(For example: What do you call a chav in a suit? The defendant).

Had Burberry's chav association been known abroad, the damage would have been greater, and the brand might have been harder to turn around.

She is, after all, the rags-to-riches girl who grew up on a Camden council estate and was branded a chav by the media the minute her star began to rise.

Friends of Ms Grogan-Morgan who posted further negative reviews also received a tirade of abuse, including one from the restaurant's account calling them a "chav cheap trash" who questioned the bill because they were "peasants".

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