A middle-aged white woman exhibiting a sense of entitlement or white privilege.
"After demanding to speak to the manager about a misplaced item, he muttered that she was being such a karen."
Alternative letter-case form of Karen (“(derogatory) any person, especially female, exhibiting an exaggerated sense of entitlement”)
In plain English: A Karen is someone who acts entitled and demands special treatment from others, especially service workers.
"The angry customer was called Karen by everyone else in the store when she demanded to speak to the manager about nothing at all."
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
"The Karen people speak several distinct languages, but they are collectively part of the Karen language family found in Myanmar and Thailand."
One of the seven great Parthian feudal families.
A group of languages of Myanmar and Thailand.
The word karen originates from the Danish version of the name Catherine, which became common in medieval Denmark. Its modern meaning as a term for an entitled middle-aged woman emerged when the name gained popularity among baby boomers and Gen Xers before being adopted into African-American Vernacular English to describe such behavior derogatorily.