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Chav is a British insult, used a lot by newspapers and TV in the 2000s, for a young working-class person. The stereotype is rude and , not highly educated, and dressed in a certain cheap-fashion way: trainers (sports shoes), sportswear or a , and a baseball cap. Though actually, the word is less about clothes than about class. It lets the speaker look down on poorer young people and call them a 'type'. It is strongly negative. Middle-class speakers and papers used it freely; many people now say it is ugly and classist. You will rarely hear it in American English. Understand it in a British article; do not use it about a real person.
英國貶義詞，指穿運動服、態度粗魯的勞動階級年輕人（近似台灣說的「俗辣」「小混混」，但這是英國特有的刻板印象）
組成The word does not split into English pieces. It probably comes from Angloromani (the English Romani speech), close to Romani words for a child such as chavi or ćhavo. Stories that it stands for 'council-housed and violent', or 'Cheltenham average', are folk tales made up later — not the real origin. Nobody is fully sure.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chavnoun/t͡ʃæv/
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offensivederogatoryA working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.
- Lyrical staff / Never could they ever take me for a chav / Scholar in the English, scholar in the Math / Dizzee ain't no riff raff
- His book concerns ‘chavs’, a supposed underclass of ill-educated, fast-breeding, violent and amoral poor people currently plaguing Britain.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。