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bovver boots

plural noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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