bovver boots

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bovver boots

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(Clothing & Fashion) slang Brit heavy boots worn by some teenage youths in Britain, used in gang fights

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bovver boots

pl (dated Brit sl) → Rockerstiefel pl

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In My Head even manages to conflate a spiky Smiths jangle with foot on the monitor bovver boot beat.

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interview method disguising the investigative size-nine bovver boot she was about to swing the singer's way.

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Their lyrics creep through a small town's darkly exotic underbelly, imagining characters and bovver boot ballets in a way that recalls Morrissey (so that's where the silly Smiths comparisons have come from).

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Even Mr Justice Lightman got into the bovver boot act with his judgment.

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Blair beware; a little more humility and a sense of God's grace might avoid trampling on religious toes with a giant bovver boot.

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The brainchild of photographer Nick Knight, he claims it was inspired by his pics of an early '80s bovver boot rally in East London which exploded into bone-crunching violence across Brick Lane's cobbles, capturing that day's smell of "sweat, boot polish and local curry houses".

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The Gazette had warned readers to beware rival gangs of "so called bovver boot boys".

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The band that mixed glam rock with bovver boot anthems had a chequered career before alighting on the magic formula that turned them into one of the '70s greatest singles acts.

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Middle-aged men with buzz-cuts and bovver boots, their families in tow.

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Indeed, the iconic British footwear icon has released a new design line of eight-eye bovver boots featuring the artwork from the controversial group's albums, such as The Day The Earth Spat Blood and Go, Go Demented.

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He was wearing large bovver boots and torn clothes," recalled Mr Balls.

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Plans for trade union reform introduced yesterday are the most restrictive proposals since Norman Tebbit stuck his bovver boots into the workers 30 years ago.