(UK, informal) The Glastonbury festival of performing arts.
(UK, informal) The Glastonbury festival of performing arts.
“He wants to come to Glasto with us,” I replied, “but doesn't understand that you can't just swap a ticket or get one at the last minute. Glasto has so many layers of security these days it's like Fort Knox.”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(slang) A highly glamorous event.
In British usage, Glyndebourne functions as shorthand for the famous opera festival held at Glyndebourne House in East Sussex, England. Saying someone 'went to Glyndebourne' instantly communicates high culture, upper-middle-class social life, and the specific British tradition of dressing in evening wear, bringing a hamper, and eating a picnic on the lawn during the long interval. It's one of those words that carries enormous cultural weight — invoking champagne, summer gardens, and very expensive tickets — in a way that just saying 'opera' wouldn't capture.
(UK, regional) Gossip.
(UK, slang, obsolete) Cheap claret.