text: when someone refers to someone as "emo", whats that mean?   "emo" is a social group. it is also another term for screamo which is a type of music. the people in this social group tend to listen to or play screamo, they dress kinda punk and goth mix. most of the guys actually where girls pants. it is a hard core group of kids. forgive me for profile, but that is what that word refers to