Adjective. Feeling melancholy while or just after listening to É
ponine sing in "Les Miserables."
Origin of
EPO: from Éponine, a character in
Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, as she is portrayed in the Claude-Michel Schönberg musical of the same name; emo
"Whenever I listen to the
second half of 'A Heart Full of
Love' I get so epo."
"I can't get through 'On My Own' without becoming so epo
I cry."