boot boy

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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)

"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