spide
/spʌɪd
/noun Northern Irish informal, derogatory
A young lower-class man typified by brash and loutish behaviour: he may look like a spide but he’s a classy act...
- Raves are full of what are known as ‘spides’.
- The music was a simple, heavy bassline and drum affair that sounds like it could have been knocked up by any shell-suited spide with access to a laptop.
- They thought we were snobs; we thought they were 'spides'.
Origin
1990s: possibly from an association with spiderman (sense 1).
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