parklife

See also: Parklife

English

Etymology

park +‎ life. Almost unattested prior to the 1994 Blur single "Parklife".

Noun

parklife (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The lifestyle and culture of parkgoers.
    • 1971, William Samsom, “A Stroll in the Park”, in Réalités, numbers 242-247, page 65:
      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.
    • 1994, “Parklife”, in Parklife, performed by Blur with Phil Daniels:
      I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too. It gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing. (Parklife!)
    • 2001, Sven Lütticken, “Parklife”, in New Left Review‎[1]:
      From the zoological garden, via the nature reserve and the theme-town, to the TV reality-show — sequences from the evolution of "parklife".
    • 2012 October 2, Jonas Bylund and Andrew Byerley, “Friction zones and emergent publics in Stockholm parklife”, in OpenDemocracy‎[2]:
      In Stockholm parklife, certain behaviours are framed as bad, unacceptable, or pathological by institutions such as the police and the social services.
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