It is usually a pejorative expression.
The term "helicopter parents" is a pejorative expression for parents that has been widely used in the media.
Other pejorative expressions associated with cats can be found in the Dutch language.
On the way back to her car, one woman spat out a pejorative expression.
"Cangaceiro" was a pejorative expression, meaning a person who could not adapt himself to the coastal lifestyle.
Cracker, sometimes white cracker or cracka, is a sometimes pejorative expression for white people, especially poor rural whites in the Southern United States.
A related, less pejorative expression is non-practicing entity (NPE) which describes a patent owner who does not manufacture or use the patented invention.
This, Mr. Pastoureau explains, was "a particularly pejorative expression as barres, in old French, designates not only stripes but also the various marks of illegitimacy."
"Information silo" is a pejorative expression that is useful for describing the absence of operational reciprocity.
