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.
Wealthy frequent traveler
- nightclubEvening entertainment venue
- MonacoTiny European nation
- IbizaSpanish Mediterranean resort island
- champagneEffervescent celebratory wine
couture · nouveau riche · tabloid · paparazzi · yacht · St. Tropez · inheritance · playboy
Tasteless, garish art
- gaudyTastelessly ornate
- leopard printPattern of rosettes
- gold chainLinked yellow metal jewelry
- sunglassesTinted eye protection
flashy · overdressed · bleached hair · ostentatious · tacky · glitzy · excessive · loud
Fixed oversimplified notion
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
- continentalOf a continent
- cosmopolitanCulturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
multilingual · accent · expatriate · displaced · rootless · snob · affectation · pretension
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
kitsch
Tasteless, garish art
- gaudyTastelessly ornate
- leopard printPattern of rosettes
- gold chainLinked yellow metal jewelry
sunglasses · flashy · overdressed · bleached hair · ostentatious · tacky · glitzy · excessive · loud · garish
stereotype
Fixed oversimplified notion
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
- continentalOf a continent
cosmopolitan · multilingual · accent · expatriate · displaced · rootless · snob · affectation · pretension · elitism
- Regional LabelsYankee, Midwesterner, Texan, Californian, New Englander
Eurotrashold money
Long-established family fortune
quiet luxury · patrician · blue blood · stealth wealth · landed gentry
trash, Europe, European, Eurovision, Eurozone, Eurostar, Europop, white trash, Eurocentric