normie crowd
- noun
- Offensive
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grupo de normies (despectivo, informal)
- She never felt comfortable with the normie crowd at school, preferring more alternative friends.
Examples
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Many online forums are created specifically to avoid the influence of the normie crowd.
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The normie crowd filled the stadium at the pop concert, singing along to every hit song.
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The normie crowd loves to follow the latest fashion trends.
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Many people in the normie crowd enjoy popular TV shows.
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The normie crowd at the mall was all wearing the same trendy sneakers.
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During the festival, the normie crowd danced to the mainstream music that everyone recognized.
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At the party, the normie crowd discussed the latest viral videos and popular memes.
How Mainstream
Surface Forms
Morphology
normie + crowd
The meaning is transparently built from 'normie' (a mainstream/normal person) + 'crowd' (a group of people), so it straightforwardly denotes a group of mainstream or conventional people. Although 'normie' is slang, if a B1 learner knows that constituent the modifier+noun composition follows a common and predictable pattern, making the overall MWE readily understandable.
Etymology
Normie crowd comes from the slang normie, a short form of 'normal', plus crowd meaning a group; imagine people all wearing the same clothes and singing the same popular songs. That picture explains why it means 'a group who follow popular trends and seem unoriginal'.