parklife

intj 1noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, enormous, ready

VERB + PARKLIFE

part, shout, shouted, wellbeing

PARKLIFE + NOUN

ADV.

gamely, recently

Definitions

intj

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

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.

noun

The lifestyle and culture of parkgoers.

Up in the boughs, a literate London Tarzan. Down to earth, a woman on the wait. All part of parklife, give or take the ups and downs.

I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too. It gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing. (Parklife!)

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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.

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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

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Up in the boughs, a literate London Tarzan. Down to earth, a woman on the wait. All part of parklife, give or take the ups and downs.

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I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too. It gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing. (Parklife!)

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From the zoological garden, via the nature reserve and the theme-town, to the TV reality-show — sequences from the evolution of "parklife".

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In some senses, parklife is marked as UK, humorous, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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