Pondlife is sharp British slang for the lowest rung of social humanity — the scum, the lowlifes, the kind of people who make you want to disinfect the bus seat after they get off. It borrows from the image of the murky, low-complexity organisms that populate the bottom of a pond, suggesting the targets are barely evolved beyond algae. It's got a biting, class-tinged edge to it and gets deployed with the kind of weary contempt that only the British can really pull off with style.
The bouncers had their hands full keeping the usual pondlife out of the club on a Friday night.
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The living creatures found in a pond.
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(UK, derogatory, slang) Scum; lowlife.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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