emo outfit
- noun
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atuendo emo
- Her emo outfit featured black skinny jeans and a band hoodie.
Examples
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He spent hours putting together the perfect emo outfit for the music festival.
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She wore a black emo outfit to the concert.
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Many teens express their individuality through an emo outfit.
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Look at that emo outfit!
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He spent hours putting together the perfect emo outfit for the music festival.
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Her emo outfit featured black skinny jeans and a band hoodie.
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Many teens express their individuality through an emo outfit.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a style of clothing associated with the emo subculture' is directly derivable from combining 'emo' (an adjective labeling a subculture/style) with 'outfit' (a clothing ensemble). This modifier+noun composition is a regular, compositional pattern and would be immediately interpretable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Emo outfit comes from the music scene called emo, short for 'emotional hardcore', where young musicians wore dark, tight clothes to show strong feeling. Because outfit means 'clothes', today an emo outfit is the dark, tight look—band T-shirts, skinny jeans and small extras like pins and bracelets—that people wear to show mood and music taste.
