penchant

plural of penchant n a strong liking

From the English "turnpike", the place where itinerent travellers and thieves would camp near a settlement.\r \r Pikey is not a racial group, the term is used to describe anyone who lives in a caravan or shares the same values and "culture" of "the travelling community", and whose main sources of income are as follows:\r \r Stealing cars, flogging roses in pubs for "childrens' charities", nicking lead off roofs, burgling garden sheds, blagging entry to old peoples house to rob them, doing dodgy tarmac jobs ("we've got some black stuff left over from a job up the road"), sometimes with mint imperials used as a substitute for white chippings, or, reportedly, using snow to lay slabs on when the sand ran out, stealing your bollocks if they weren't in a bag and anything else that's not nailed down and anything that is nailed down but will fit in the back of an untaxed Transit when nobody's looking.\r \r Characterised by lurchers on a string, a unintelligible language that "isn't English, it isn't Irish, it's just Pikey" (source: Film: Snatch), a penchant for harecoursing, ketamine, lighter fuel, fighting in pubs and shopping at Lidl.\r \r Best avoided. > [pikey] > [pikeyness] > [diddycoy] > [trailer trash]

a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you

(noun) [zee-moh-beel] 'Xemobile' refers to any large Sports Utility Vehicle, usually dark in color. Originating from Western contractor's penchants in Iraq and Afghanistan for driving big, sometimes armored, SUVs during the course of their operations, Xe being the former Blackwater Security company and one of the largest in operations within the theater. Many contractors drive these vehicles in highly agressive manners and have illusions of being superheros while behind the wheel due to the unregulated power these contractors often wield