Meanings
noun
- historicalA youth movement in northern Italy in the 1980s characterized by an obsession with designer clothing and fast food.
Girls, boys, art, pleasure / Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
1986, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant, “Paninaro”, performed by Pet Shop Boys1 more example
The year it was released, Valentino Garavani began legal action to try to have the McDonald's next to his HQ in Rome on Piazza di Spagna closed down. The paninaro trend petered out but the McDonald's outlived Garavani.
2026 April 4, Marc C O'Flaherty, “‘Fashion never got better than that’”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5
Origin
- Italianpaninaro
- Englishpaninaro
Borrowed from Italian paninaro.
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Chicago
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