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bovver boots

British  

plural noun

  1. slang  heavy boots worn by some teenage youths in Britain, used in gang fights

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Dressed in a white lace corset and knee-high bovver boots, she high-kicked across the stage, whipping the crowd into a frenzy.

From BBC

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

Now, Dacre-trained in attack dog menace, he pulls on his bovver boots and joins them.

From The Guardian

One woman, wearing red lipstick and bovver boots, says she is overwhelmed.

From The Guardian

We were playing our set when suddenly the doors burst open and about 30 skinheads walk in, fully clad, in leather and bovver boots.

From The Guardian