Eurotrash

English

Etymology

Euro- +‎ trash. Compare white trash.

Noun

Eurotrash (uncountable)

  1. Continental European entertainment that is of low quality, or is lowbrow.
  2. (chiefly US, derogatory) European expatriates or visitors to the United States lacking a work ethic and focused on entertainment or leisure.
    • 2002 December 8, Julia Chaplin, “A New Eurofestation”, in New York Times‎:
      Yes, those hard-partying jet-setters known to American wags as Eurotrash, who flocked to New York City by the Concordeload in the 1980's sporting black mock turtlenecks, leather pants and sometimes dubious aristocratic titles, are back on the town.
    • 2018, “Eurotrash”, in Pillycock‎, performed by Momus:
      For reasons becoming clear to me / New York City you are dead to me / Well you can turn back time but I'm never coming back / To when you called me Eurotrash

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