bootboys

1. 1.

   a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism

   Synonymsskinheads

   Broaderyouth subculture

Other forms of bootboys

plural

bootboyses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bootboys

What does bootboys mean?

bootboys means "a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism".

How many syllables are in bootboys?

bootboys has 2 syllables: boot-boys. The stress falls on "boot".

What is another word for bootboys?

Close synonyms include skinheads. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bootboys a common word?

bootboys is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.