Derro - australian slang for derelict, namely teenage kids you dress like trailer trash, start smoking and drinking when they're 11 and learn their abuse of narcotics from their drug dealer/alcoholic/government support relying parents. Often live in government housing or low budget, dodgy rep suburbs.
International equivalents : Chav, 'gangsta', Adelay, Lad
Skills and characteristics include
1. Noteworthy entrance in that most people can smell him before they can see him.
2. Memorable dress sense and previous haircut the work of Mephistopheles himself.
3. Tiresome and unprovoked threats to 'leather' other people, outside your party.
4. Word slurring to the point of incomprehensibility, combined with increasing anger / aggression towards those who mention that they cannot understand him.
5. Olympic-grade mine-sweeping abilities.
6. Constant need for the toilet, combined with inability to actually find it, and general willingness to substitute a wall, whether inside or outside, when unable to do otherwise.
7. Capacity to get the whole job lot of you ejected from a licenced premises within minutes of arrival.
8. Unerring capacity to render even the most innocent situation inappropriate and arrest-worthy.
9. Should things get hairy, constantly available to back you up, but in such a way that the possibility of spending a night in the cells becomes a certainty.
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