Eurotrash

Gaudy wealthy Europeans

Eurotrash is a dismissive term for wealthy Europeans, especially jet-setters who frequent fashionable clubs and resorts, known for flashy style and decadent behavior: The club was full of Eurotrash in designer clothes.

The term blends mockery of pretension with class resentment.

It can also refer broadly to lowbrow European popular culture.

socialite

jet-setter

Wealthy frequent traveler

  • nightclubEvening entertainment venue
  • MonacoTiny European nation
  • IbizaSpanish Mediterranean resort island

champagne · couture · nouveau riche · tabloid · paparazzi · yacht · St. Tropez · inheritance · playboy · socialite

aesthetic

kitsch

Tasteless, garish art

sunglasses · flashy · overdressed · bleached hair · ostentatious · tacky · glitzy · excessive · loud · garish

cultural

stereotype

Fixed oversimplified notion

cosmopolitan · multilingual · accent · expatriate · displaced · rootless · snob · affectation · pretension · elitism

Categories
Opposites
social class and presentation

Eurotrashold money

Long-established family fortune

quiet luxury · patrician · blue blood · stealth wealth · landed gentry

cultural sophistication

Eurotrashintellectual

Concerning thought and reason

cultured · highbrow · refined · scholar · aesthete

geographic/cultural origin

Eurotrashwhite trash

Classist slur for poor Caucasians

Family

trash, Europe, European, Eurovision, Eurozone, Eurostar, Europop, white trash, Eurocentric

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Used worldwide · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13