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Perry boys

Perry boys is the plural of Perry boy.

Meaning of Perry boy

Noun

Perry boy (plural Perry boys)

  1. (Northern England, historical) A member of the casual subculture in Manchester in the 1980s.
    • "Scally" (short for scallywag) was actually a Liverpudlian archetype; the Manchester equivalent was the Perry boy, named after their Fred Perry shirts.2013 [1998], Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy, Routledge, →ISBN

Questions about Perry boys

What is Perry boys the plural of?
Perry boys is the plural of Perry boy.

Words near Perry boys in the dictionary

  1. perruthenate
  2. perruthenates
  3. perry
  4. Perry Barr
  5. Perry boy
  6. Perry boys
  7. Perry Bridge
  8. Perry County
  9. Perry Mason moment
  10. Perry Mason moments
  11. perryite

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