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gopnik^¹

/ˈɡoʊpnɪk/

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Borrowed from Russian го́пник (gópnik).

noun gopniks · gopniki · gopota · gopari

derogatory In Russia, Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics, and other Slavic countries, a member of a subculture of young people of lower-class low-income backgrounds, mostly millennials, who usually live in the Russian suburbs.
Similar: gop, gopota, gopar, chav, thug, zef, hoodlum, bogan, Ah Beng

Gopnik^²

proper noun Gopniks

A surname. Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into

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noun (pejorative) a member of a subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, other former Soviet republics, and other Slavic countries

Français	gopnik
Русский	го́пник gópnik, го́пница gópnica

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@misc{gopnik_2026,
  title = {gopnik},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gopnik},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}