gopnik

plural gopniks · plural gopniki · plural gopota · plural gopari

1. derogatoryIn Russia, Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics, and other Slavic countries, a member of a subculture of young people of lower-class low-income backgrounds, mostly millennials, who usually live in the Russian suburbs.

   Synonyms: gop, gopota, gopar, chav, thug, zef, hoodlum, bogan

plural Gopniks

1. A surname.

   1 more example

   Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.” […] The Gopniks smiled calmly: this was all par for the course for them.

   2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2018