[Tom]

This is just a rant about the general use of it. It is supposed to be used to describe people like what you see on Jeremy Kyle, people who always wear trackies and loads of gold and live on council estates etc. (Not everyone who matches the above is like that, its just a stereotype.)

I think in the last year or so people have just begun to use the word as an insult, even though they don't know what it means. Its been said on here quite a few times that suchabody is a chav when they clearly aren't.

Why do people insist on using the word when they don't even know what it means? conf2::

I think the use that some people give it today means it has just lost its meaning so it doesn't mean anything anymore because people just use it to call someone or something they don't like.

Rant over.