noun / adjective
square
A person considered uncool for being conventional.
The teenagers call him a square for following every rule.
Etymology
Square became slang for someone rigidly conventional or outside fashionable culture. The label treats regularity and conformity as social limitations.
More examples
- She dismissed his taste in music as square.
- He joked that he had become a square.
- The old movie contrasts the rebels with the squares.
Forms
square · squares
Similar words
- conformist
- Someone who follows established expectations.
- stick-in-the-mud
- An informal insult for someone resistant to change or fun.