Not in our mall: Wild moment group of fearless Adelaide mums break up a fight between brawling eshays at Westfield Tea Tree Plaza

More and more Australian youth are embracing life as an ‘eshay’ and causing chaos at train stations and shopping centres, proudly donning their hips and mullets.

The eshay movement has gained popularity across the country, with its teenage members identified by their matching designer sportswear, Nike TN sneakers and their generally menacing demeanor.

While the more hardcore eshays engage in assaults, robberies and threatening other young people, most seem to wander aimlessly through the streets.

TikTok has helped some teens show off their eshay behavior by posting videos of them arguing with the crowd and taking drugs.

The eshay culture has gained traction across Australia with gangs in almost every state

Although they have managed to create their own questionable uniform in the form of baggy track pants, shorts and polo shirts, eshays have also developed their own language.

Some confuse words and put ‘ay’ at the end in a form of pig Latin. ‘Eetswa’ means ‘sweet’ and ‘chill’ becomes ‘illchay’.

The term eshay is similar to the British expression ‘chav’ and can be interchangeable with ‘lad’, which in turn sometimes becomes ‘adlay’.

‘Eshay’ may have started as ‘eshay adlay’ – pig Latin for ‘he is boy’ or related to ‘sesh’, for a prolonged period of drug use.

Eshays are said to have spread from Sydney’s inner city graffiti scene through Housing Commission estates and into the suburbs in the 1980s.

Eshays are known to hang out at train stations

Teenagers who embraced eshay culture were mainly from low socio-economic backgrounds, but the movement was also picked up by boys from private schools.

Favorite labels for the fashionable eshay are Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Lacoste, combined with Nautica, Adidas, Under Armor and Ellesse.