grebo, n.
(ˈgriːbəʊ)
Pl. grebos.
[Of uncertain origin; perh. f. greaser n. 2 c + -bo, as in dumbo, jumbo.]
(A member of) an urban youth cult in Britain characterized by musical tastes bridging heavy metal and punk rock, an aggressive or anti-social manner, and long hair and clothes reminiscent of the earlier biker or greaser generation.
| 1987 Sounds 25 Apr. 20/1 This is Pop Will Eat Itself's triumphant, Grolsch soaked finale to a pimply pop pepped 12 song ‘designer grebo’ set. 1987 Times 13 Oct. 19/6 A new cult known as ‘grebo’..is a movement of transcending witlessness whose generally youthful protagonists..have appropriated both..punk's anti-social slobbishness and the grimy, anti-chic dress-sense of the hippy biker. 1988 Independent 29 Sept. 34/3 The Wonderstuff Wolverhampton's favourite grebos (translation: up and coming sleazy psychedelic guitar rock from the West Midlands). 1988 Tower Records' Top Feb. 20/4 With their grebo image to protect they are bound to be horrible and pour beer on me and maybe throw me down the stairs afterwards. 1989 New Musical Express 25 Feb. 17 It's two years since that great blob of sputum, Grebo, was gobbed into our hapless faces. 1991 Guardian 17 Aug. 22/4 There can hardly be a town in the country whose civic centrepoint has not, at some time, been graced by a group of spotty grebos admiring each other's chrome and planting the odd flob on the asphalt. |