Emo from emocore; a boy/girl who likes to cry and say that your life's banana, only much less dark, and much more Harry Potter. Or you could just say they're emotion punks that like to slit their wrists while listening to Simple Plan.
The word emo comes from an English corruption of the word emu, used to denote a sound like that of an emu's death squawk.
Ex: As the sixteen-ton piano collapsed onto Ms. Crabtree's joyless septegenarian body, she let out a horrendous emo that was heard miles away.
Nowadays, the term refers to a sub-genre of fag whining music invented by accident by maverick comedian Emo Phillips. This genre of music is widely acknowledged to be a particularly virulent form of crap.
The first 'wave' of emo started in Emo, Lithuania in the early 1980s, led by creator Emo Phillips' band 'Sad Emo'. The breakthrough sound of Phillips' incessant blubbing over a muddy acoustic punk riff quickly spawned a thousand identical bands that spread all over the country within a matter of months (especially the French-speaking bits). Teenagers and other abnormally-hormoned people were soon taken in by the trend, combining the least popular elements of goth, punk and new-romanticism into an exciting, if whiny, new whole. And thus, the emo kid was born. Major labels soon took note, and keen to capitalise on pubescent emotion, soon signed several bands into their catalogs, including Quebec's 'Misery Child' and the almost unbelievably depressing 'A Darkened Room Filled With Black Roses And Dead Babies'. The increased amount of crying caused by the traitorous selling out of these bands literally broke the emo genre to pieces, where it was left to gather dust for several years.
