Grebo vs Grego - What's the difference?
grebo | grego |
(slang, UK, predominantly West Midlands) A greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie.
*1998 , "Bill Jillians", alt.journalism.gonzo (Internet newsgroup)
*:The highlight of my school days was one day in the mid-70s. There was a sort of glam-rock cult called the Grebos back then who wore smartish Disco clothes...
*2002 , Glyn Brown, Baxter Dury: Chip off the old Blockhead'' (''The Independent on Sunday )
*:But the realistic side stepped in — y'know, if you're on the point of giving birth, you don't really need a bunch of grebos playing some dodgy old music downstairs.
(slang, UK) A member of a United Kingdom subculture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, musically affiliated with garage rock and electronica, typically wearing baggy clothes and hair in high ponytails.
*1995 , Colin Larkin, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music
*:...they were soon pigeonholed under the banner of "grebo rock"...
*2002 , Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide to Rock
*:...focused on the hyper punk aspect of England's "grebo" movement...
*2003 , Peter Buckley, Jonathan Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock
*:This debut album is a glorious grebo -fest.
A type of rough jacket with a hood.
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As nouns the difference between grebo and grego
is that grebo is (slang|uk|predominantly west midlands) a greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie while grego is a type of rough jacket with a hood.grebo
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Alternative forms
* greeboNoun
(en noun)grego
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Noun
(en noun)- Going to his heavy grego , or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days' old Congo baby.