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

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)

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

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)

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