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But since Salman's murder he has been unable to write a word Chav Lotto millionaire Michael Carroll ordered to clean up his wrecked £320,000 mansion - before he can rent it out to immigrants Nick Clegg joins in at last to attack 'dinosaurs who are against AV' 'Seizing iPods from yobs won't work': They'll just commit more crime, judges warn Boris Johnson is urged to issue smog alert as London gets warmer
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But since Salman's murder he has been unable to write a word Chav Lotto millionaire Michael Carroll ordered to clean up his wrecked £320,000 mansion - before he can rent it out to immigrants Nick Clegg joins in at last to attack 'dinosaurs who are against AV' 'Seizing iPods from yobs won't work': They'll just commit more crime, judges warn Boris Johnson is urged to issue smog alert as London gets warmer
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Diary of a Chav is an enjoyable read with an encouraging message.
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Chav is a derogatory term used by snooty folks to describe poor working class people in Britain.
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I recently got in a few stupid spats on our own forum (about the use of the word "Chav" - something I'm not really into) and it brought me back to the potential fickleness of it all.
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An Act providing an alternative method of calling Chav 14
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And if a six foot six "Chav" had dropped his fag in the middle of the struggle, no doubt the dickless wonders of Thannet Council would have issued him with a Fine?
Pensioner fined for littering after police knock cigarette from his hand: FIDO The Dog 2008
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The Fabian Society has called for the word "Chav" to be banned.
Archive 2008-07-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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'Chav' as I saw somebody say earlier in a comment, is, infact, not the new unisex term for an essex girl or boy i am an essex girl by the way, although, not at all a stereotypical one after spending a large part of my life in boarding schools It just means a particular type of working-class person that comes from any part of the country.
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1300 A.D., speaks of a place called Chavâ, which may be Luang
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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