Today's slang word of the day is bobo. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
adjective
- off-brand. Typically implies lower cost and lower quality than a mainstream brand.
That bobo toilet paper just doesn't feel as nice as the good stuff.
More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing
- false; untrue.
Man, that's bobo.
More words meaning: nonsense, lies
- crazy, stupid, silly, or weird. From the Spanish word "bobo," meaning "foolish" or "fool."
She really did that? She's so bobo.
More words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange
noun
- a person who is a "balance of bourgeois and bohemian".
"...So David Brooks contends in his witty book Bobos in Paradise - "Bobos" being a term of Brooks's coinage to describe this "new upper class", which has created a "balance of bourgeois and bohemian" by "living amidst commerce" while "admir(ing) art and intellect", growing "affluent" while remaining "opposed to materialism", and whose members spend "their lives selling yet worr(ying) about selling out". Who exactly are these people? In the realm of material consumption, Bobos reconcile bourgeois and bohemian by cultivating "ever finer tastes about ever more simple things", preferring to "buy the same items as the proletariat - it's just that (they) buy rarified versions of these items that members of the working class would consider preposterous."
-- "Toaster chic", Andrew Stark, 09 June 2000More words meaning: miscellaneous insults (list of)
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
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