bovver boots
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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And it was thanks to If.… that he landed the role of Alex DeLarge in the vicious, playful A Clockwork Orange, prancing about Thamesmead in bovver boots and a bowler hat.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2020
One woman, wearing red lipstick and bovver boots, says she is overwhelmed.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2019
"We were like a pop band in our Crombies and bovver boots."
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2011
Tiger Feet took Lester Bangs's definition of bubblegum and applied it to glam – no bovver boots, no androgyny, just bone-headed gibberish and a stonking one-note riff.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2010
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