boot boy

British  

noun

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

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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

"He, he, he," laughed the boot boy as he turned them up for me to look at.

From O'Conors of Castle Conor by Trollope, Anthony

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

"Rickie, can I give these sandwiches to the boot boy?" said the one.

From The Longest Journey by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)

The fortunes of the page and club boy await the zeal of an investigator; the knife and boot boy soon passes to some other occupation.

From Boy Labour and Apprenticeship by Bray, Reginald Arthur