boot boy

British  

noun

1. a member of a gang of hooligans who usually wear heavy boots

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Example Sentences

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boot boy

I had to fling myself against the button to ring for the boot boy.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

One of my squibs would not go off, and Gowing said: “Hit it on your boot, boy; it will go off then.”

From Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith, George

His professional duties, explained the knife and boot boy, did not include being punched in the heye by blokes, and he did not intend to be put upon.

From The White Feather by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Then I ask him for some spectacle in the town, and he sent boot boy with me so far as the theatre, and I go in to pay.

From The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. by Various

Jack Bruce and Francis added their tribute, and the knife and boot boy paid him the neatest compliment of all by refusing point-blank to have any more dealings with him whatsoever.

From The White Feather by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)