mall-goth

plural mall-goths

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of mallgoth.

   “Lester, what the fuck?” he said, grinning and laughing as he clapped Lester on the shoulder, taking a young mall-goth’s five bucks out of a hand whose fingernails were painted with chipped black polish. “What the hell is going on here?”

   2009 November, Cory Doctorow, “Part II”, in Patrick Nielsen Hayden, editor, Makers (A Tor Book), New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 174

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   "The skull is all-purpose," said Sasha Frere-Jones, a music critic at The New Yorker. "It simultaneously refers to horror movies, to the Misfits and, by extension, all punk rock, and to a generalized culture of blackness and spookiness and the larger, mall-Goth culture."

   2006 July 27, David Colman, “The heyday of the dead”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2023

   Next, are the wannabe mall-goths of the 2000s. Self-proclaimed "e-girls" and "e-boys" sporting chain link chokers and belts, big black bell bottoms, outfits plastered with images of roses, and "emo" accessories and makeup that strives for a look that breaks society's conventions, but falls short.

   2019 April 26, Nevàn Campos, “Three Overused Fashion Trends”, in The Oarsman, Los Angeles, Calif.: Venice High School, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023