Spide

n.

Heard in Down and Antrim

Member of the working-class noted for copious amounts of fake jewellery, greasy hair and shell suits/bomber jackets/hoodies.

In use

We need to scoot, those spides from last night just walked in downstairs

Posh English

We must make haste, those vulgar youths from last evening just entered the ground floor.

Same phrase, other counties

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