Mallgoth

Quick meaning: Mallgoth is a noun meaning (uncountable) The culture or fashion style adopted by such a person.

Meaning

(uncountable) The culture or fashion style adopted by such a person.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Originally (derogatory), an inauthentic or trendy goth; now, a person who dresses in goth-inspired clothes, is interested in industrial metal and nu metal music, etc.

Example Sentences

[A]lternative teen culture was really concentrated, with mallgoths, emos, and (shudder) scene kids sharing equal grounds on Myspace.

“Lester, what the fuck?” he said, grinning and laughing as he clapped Lester on the shoulder, taking a young mall-goth’s five bucks out of a hand whose fingernails were painted with chipped black polish. “What the hell is going on here?”

For the most part, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has grown stronger with every season. […] Case in point: the last five minutes of the finale, which included a six-month time jump; Daisy adopting a mallgoth vigilante persona; and the "birth" of AIDA, a humanoid A.I.

MallGoths are young in age, spending the majority of their time after school at the mall. […] MallGoths dress differently to seem "in the know," when, in actuality, they have no clue what Goth culture really is. To them, Goth is a fashion statement and nothing more.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mall goth, goth, gothling, netgoth, gawth, gothette.

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