batcaver

plural batcavers

1. An early member of the goth subculture.

   He was naturally devastated, as any self-respecting lugubrious batcaver would be.

   2011, John Donoghue, Police, Crime & 999, page 246

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   btw, hamilton just hosted the marilyn manson concert on friday. the only question i have is, did i look that dopey when i was a batcaver? oh gawd, i hope not!

   1997, leanne kemmler, “Re: Buncha WHSmiths! (wasRe: BUNCHA WHINERS!)”, in alt.society.generation-x (Usenet)

   The people who listened to bauhaus and wore black were known as the "Batcavers". Instead of sitting around, sipping red wine and saying "this place isn't very goth", we Batcavers enjoyed getting shit-faced, beating up the crap out of the mods and then stealing their mopeds.

   1998, Spaceboy, “Re: Hillbillies in the parking lot! Agh!”, in alt.gothic (Usenet)

   The look was easy to copy and nearly identical-looking herds of Goths—sometimes called batcavers because of the London nightclub—were commonplace in high schools throughout Europe, North America and Australia by the middle 1980s.

   2010, Jerry Langton, Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder