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chav noun [ tʃav ]

• a young person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour (usually with connotations of a low social status).
Origin: 1990s: probably from Romani chavo ‘boy, youth’ or chavvy ‘baby, child’: sometimes said to have originated in Chatham, Kent, and to be a shortening of that name.


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