bovver boy

The possibilities are so tantalizing that one leaves "Bovver Boys" really annoyed.

Heavy boots, sometimes with a steel toecap, worn by Bovver boys and used for kicking in fights.

Death of a Bovver Boy (1974)

They say its colour scheme conjures up thoughts of Union Jacks, bovver boys and patriotism.

Bovver Boys (1991)

But this week two tales in two major industries suggested that even the largest corporations were not immune from bovver boy attitudes to their own workforces.

But the bovver boys have rejected Rock's traditional status which explains the lack of vitality in British Rock in the early seventies.'

Bovver Boys (Willy Holtzman)

Their ground, Upton Park, has also witnessed racism amongst fans and here football hooliganism originated amongst bovver boys in the 1960s.

It has in at least one case been transferred into standard English as a neologism: a bovver boy is a thug, a "boy" who likes "bother" (fights).

In Transformers: Prime, Breakdown returns as a Decepticon bovver boy, who is the muscle for Megatron.

Bovver Boys- 'Say Hey - We Came To Party (Dancepool)

ROWING's Bovver Boy Bruvvers struck Gold with one of the most sensational finishes in Olympic rowing history.

Dave Hill and Jim Lea were mortified by a revised image based upon Dr Marten boots, braces, cropped hair and aggressive 'bovver boy' posturing.

Emporio has brought Armani to the masses; Italian taxi drivers and British bovver boys alike fork out quite happily for sweaters, jeans and T-shirts featuring the world-famous winged emblem.

IF Gidon Saks has been in the last year the bovver boy of Scottish Opera, singing splendidly but speaking out of turn, he has surely redeemed himself this week directing the RSAMD Opera Class in two productions at the New Athenaeum.

With a boisterous and intimidating atmosphere, largely due to it being a favoured spot for the more vociferous Rovers supporters, and given the nature of football in Britain in the 1970s, it became notoriously linked with bovver boys and hooliganism - a period documented by the book Bovver by Chris Brown.