1informal A rowdy or violent youth typically having close-cropped hair and wearing heavy boots.
not all skinheads are fascist bootboys
Example sentencesExamples
- Put on top of that whatever the extra interest the bootboys are now charging because of banking covenant breaches - probably 1-2 per cent.
- While he is far from being a bootboy, party colleagues said he would be crossed at one's peril.
- There weren't many bootboys there, at least not like these ones.
- Their reputation was increased by the growing number of skins on their shows and their refusal to make statements against the bootboys.
- And the bespectacled former bootboy said that the man once could expect little forgiveness from the band's once-loyal ‘Sham Army’.