Meaning of Parklife | Babel Free

Definitions

A response to a statement perceived as pretentious, pompous or verbose.

UK, humorous

Examples

“The news won’t come⟳ as a surprise⟳ to everyone, considering the number⟳ of Twitter users who gamely shouted “Parklife!” at him recently, after Brand’s convoluted way of speaking was compared to the wordy verses of Blur’s song of the same name⟳.”

“If you can shout⟳ “Parklife!” at the end⟳ of your sentence with the word “hippocampus” “or “fusiform gyrus” somewhere in the middle, there is a chance you’ve mastered neurobabble.”

“As an avid reader, but one who gave up academia years ago, parsing meaning from the dense descriptors occasionally left me ready to shout⟳ Parklife. But it’s also a book which says to the reader: make⟳ of this what you will. There are no polemics here, no dumbings down.”

“Guy Debord was undoubtedly a brilliant polemic thinker, whose essays included clever-sounding sentences like⟳: "The introduction of alterations such as more or less arbitrarily transposing maps of two different regions, can contribute⟳ to clarifying certain wanderings that express⟳ not subordination to randomness but complete⟳ insubordination to habitual influences.*" * Parklife!”

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