The other thing I'd say about the term in MK at least, was that despite being at a relatively multi-racial (for UK suburbia) school this was an almost entirely white subculture.
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I also wonder if the incredibly intense regional differences that the comments to this have thrown up still exist in the age of Tik Tok.
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Greb. But my mum and dad called it Greebo/ was the name of it for them...?
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All about hanging out
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Skaters (more colourful, more into blink 182) vs grungers (similarly as baggy, more into slipknot).
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Greebo goes back to early 70s
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Just a point of info that true Grebo is earlier - late 1980s to early 1990s, associated with fans of bands like Ned's Atomic Dustbin and the Midlands indie scene (PWEI, Jesus Jones etc). See Carter USM, 'the only living boy in New Cross': "the grebos, the crusties and the goths'
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Yeah, that’s who I would have identified the term with. When Stourbridge was briefly indie capital of Britain.
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I only came across "greebo" while at university (University of York, 2010-13), and even then it was evoked as a dead term. We had "emos" at our school (Wirral Grammar School for Boys, 2003-2010), which I think described what you might have called "greebos"?
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I'm older, and grebo (only ever one 'e') was our word for the metalheads (this would be mid- to late-80s). The other subcultures in our town were the skaters (indie music) and the mods (Northern Soul). And, yes, that town was Sleaford.
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Yes - grebo was definitely a derogatory reference to metalheads on the Wirral, too! Right up to the late 90s, in my experience.
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