I think it is actually
Council House Aggrevated Violence.
Somink like that anyways.
( baldmonkey LOOK I CAN SWEAR AND SEEK ATTENTION, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:20, archived)

http://www.b3ta.com/board/5003530?
( lukedoof Did someone just say weeaboo?, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:28, archived)

It's short for chavie
Romany for a child
( Stilton Cheesewright, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:29, archived)

i don't think it's really an acronym
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chav
( urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:30, archived)

eh?
It's not an acronym. Chav is a very localised word actually and comes from the south east. it is a derivitive of 'charva' which is a term for a gypsy. They also used to call kids Chavs in the South east. Elsewhere these types had their own local names. They are Neds in Glasgow, Scallies in Liverpool, often Skanks in Manchester but because the media always follow what goes on in London as they became high profile on tv the term Chav has become a nationwide thing. In America they would be the children of white or trailer trash.
I'm just reading wikipedia and it mentions people have been giving it a meaning as an acronym so I guess you are not wrong in a sense.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav for the Americans and Aussies who are perplexed.
( Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:31, archived)

I've learned so much on B3ta!
To think that only three years ago I had not a clue what a minger was.
(Indole Ring, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:35, archived)

Aye.
It's an education fella. We should be compulsory in schools!
( Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:36, archived)

Would have made my education that much more enjoyable





and so much less useful
(Indole Ring, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:38, archived)

I've
always heard it came from a posh women's group thingy in Cheltenham. They began calling all of the lower classes the "Cheltenham Average" and thus chav was born
(^Irish^, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 12:03, archived)